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A RATHER DIFFICULT CONUNDRUM

Geoffrey Start

ISBN 978-1-83574-017-0

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Publication: 25 JULY 2024
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ISBN: 9781835740170
Price: £8.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 320 pp
Illustrated: None
Thema: FF Crime

Author location: London
Comparative title: 9781915352583 Biscuit Barrel
Murder

• A cosy crime novel set in the 1920s.
• Set between Norfolk, London,
Northumberland, Sussex, and Scotland, the
characters take great delight in the local
cuisine on their travels.
• From the author of The Biscuit Barrel Murder.

Desperate to emerge from the shadow of his late father, Sir
Geoffrey Start’s early childhood was spent in rural Norfolk before
he moved to Southwest London, where he still lives with his family. William Fescue – better known as Wispy – sets up his own
detective agency in April 1920 along with his friend from the
His mother was a domestic science teacher and a fantastic cook, and Western Front and fellow gourmand, Strangely, and feisty
from an early age she encouraged him to understand and appreciate Oxford graduate and keen entomologist Miss Wanda
food. Unsurprisingly, gastronomy plays an integral part in his writing. Cushway.
His sense of humour and love of eccentric characters shine through
in his cosy crime novels. Flushed with success of their first case in solving the
murder of Viscount George Thurmaston, they are plunged
headlong into a mission to find Florence, the missing
daughter of shipbuilding magnate and ruthless
businessman Sir Chester Eastoff.

Ransom notes and gruesome threats are delivered,
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0116 279 2299 be rescued in time? Will the real culprits be caught and
brought to justice? And will Wispy and his agency achieve
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without notice. 15/03/2024 another success and solve this high-profile case, or was his
father right all along?