Brought to you by Penguin. A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for ...
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Brought to you by Penguin. A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring ??? Kingsley Amis 1973 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1973. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151777209. 224 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Carl Smith. keywords: Europe England Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-In form a classic armchair mystery (a flesh-with-blood novel, so to speak), THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER has for its somewhat surprising hero a fourteen-year-old boy hovering hopefully on the brink between inexperience and initiation. The delicious and mind-consuming prospect of sex, which has tempted Peter Furneaux into experiments with his friend Reg, now turns into the hot pursuit, as yet frustrated, of those mysterious and formidable creatures, girls. Riverside Villas, a rural enclave, is the scene of his exploits-and of someone's crime. The victim, dripping wet and with a bleeding head wound, staggers into the sitting room of No. 19 and dies forthwith. Motive: none that the police can pinpoint. Weapon: a weird spiked club devoid of fingerprints. Challenge: only one out of many suspects with a foolproof alibi. The mystery deepens: there are further attacks, and an enigmatic note suggests the lurking presence of a clever and erudite criminal. Only Peter begins to guess at the truth-a dangerous truth, which leads him to the river bank by moonlight. In THE GREEN MAN Kingsley Amis brilliantly revived the ghost story. Now he achieves a comparable triumph with a detective story-a work enlivened by its witty, subtle, sympathetic portrayal of a likable youth discovering sex, by a singularly varied supporting cast, and by a marvelous evocation of the 1930's. THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER is, like its forerunner, a splendid entertainment, clever, comic, and chilling. Those who wish to pit their wits against the author's and solve the mystery for themselves are advised to study pages 61, 82, and 160. inventory #4582.
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