Crime Writers And Other Animals

Here are ten evilly plotted little masterpieces from one of Britain's favourite mystery writers.

In 'Happy Christmas, Darling - and Goodbye' the eternal triangle is fractured by the unlikeliest of murder weapons - a tumble-drier hose. In 'The Man Who Got the Dirt', two Angry Young Men of the Amis and Osborne generation have become Angry Old Men - and one of them is angry enough to kill. In 'Political Corrections' a recently discovered, and very valuable, unpublished manuscript by a classic English crimewriter of the thirties falls foul of the political correctness of the nineties. But is it genuine?

In these ten tales, each with its surprising twist, Simon Brett covers all seven of the deadly sins, with supremely entertaining results.