A humorous novel about a private eye living an uneventful life in Brighton until normality gives way to a kind of mad logic. Frank, a private eye in Brighton, is the perfect lodger: neat, quiet, and solitary, a decent man leading an uneventful life. Then his neighbour announces she s pregnant, his landlady s budgie is strangled, his boss retires to a sauna, his client s wife is murdered, the client himself drowns, and his client s sister dies in a fall from a high cliff path. As Frank s world tightens into a circle of chaos and death, he seeks escape. But will this be the catalyst he needs, or just another step towards the total collapse of his life?"
- ISBN10 0340647310
- ISBN13 9780340647318
- Publish Date 31 December 1999 (first published 28 April 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 March 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Sceptre
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 230
- Language English