Truss successfully combines wry humor with a fair-play mystery. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something othe. It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A.
James Brunswick and despite lack of support from the feckless Steine. A wryly entertaining new crime novel from Lynne Truss, New York Times bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Twitten sets out to investigate Crystal’s murder and his link to the unsolved case, aided by competent Sgt. That evening at the Theater Royal, something in the play prompts Crystal to remember a piece of crucial information about the Aldersgate robbery, but he’s shot dead before he can share it with the police. Geoffrey Steine, the less than clever head of the Brighton Constabulary, who in 1945 failed to break the Aldersgate stickup case, to which Crystal, then an assistant bank manager, was a witness. That same morning, Constable Peregrine Twitten, an eager beaver who won a prize “for forensic observation,” reports for duty to Det. of the fame wilderness (and rehab) to take on the Dahlia mantle for the new movie. Crystal takes the train to Brighton, where he’s to attend the try-out of a new play, A Shilling in the Meter, at the Theater Royal. Lynne Truss is a columnist, writer and broadcaster whose book on punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves was a New York Times bestseller. the team behind the newest movie adaptation of Davenports books. One morning in 1957, London theater critic A.S. British author Truss ( Eats, Shoots and Leaves) makes her crime fiction debut with this hilarious series launch.
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