Kyril Bonfiglioli
The Great Mordecai Moustache Mystery
Pbk published March 2002 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 0141003871Kyril Bonfiglioli's final novel follows the Hon. Charlie Mortdecai from adventure to misadventure via Jersey and Moscow to a final showdown in a Buckinghamshire bungalow of unparalleled hideousness. Tackling en route an unhealthy sprinkling of well-seasoned academics, a cryptic monk, an aristocratic Chief Constable, and more spies than you could shoehorn into a black stretch limo, Mordecai finds himself embroiled in another mission of international insecurity. Left unfinished at the time of the author's death, the celebrated satirist and parodist Craig Brown supplies the penultimate, plot-resolving chapter.
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Nicci French
The Red Room
Pbk published February 2002 by Penguin at £6.99
ISBN: 014028107X|
Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found killed by a canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded Kit. But Kit refuses to accept appearances and her obsessive search for the truth draws her into an underworld of the missing and the unloved which puts her at terrible risk.
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Jack Higgins
Prayer for the Dying
Pbk published February 2002 by Penguin at £5.99
ISBN: 0140273441The Wartime battlegrounds of the Mediterranean provide the setting for this suspense thriller, in which the allies must secure the assistance of the Sicilian Mafia for their invasion of the island.
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