A Shot in the Dark

✍ Scribed by Truss, Lynne

• Book ID: 110310464
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 192 KB
• Series: Constable Twitten 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The first book in a charming and witty new crime series from much-loved author Lynne Truss
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**After the notorious 'Middle Street Massacre' of 1951, when the majority of Brighton's criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine rather enjoys life as a policeman. No criminals, no crime, no stress. He just wishes Sergeant Brunswick would stop insisting that perhaps not every criminal was wiped out that fateful day.

So it's really rather annoying when an ambitious - not to mention irritating - new Constable shows up to work and starts investigating a series of burglaries. And it's even more annoying when, after Constable Twitten is despatched to the theatre for the night, he sits next to a vicious theatre critic who is promptly shot dead part way through the opening night of a new play.

It seems Brighton may be in need of a...