McGarr and the P.M. of Belgrave Square

✍ Scribed by Bartholomew Gill

• Book ID: 110566877
• Publisher: Viking Penguin, Inc. New York
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 544 KB
• Series: Peter McGarr 5
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 014007323X

✦ Synopsis

Penguin CRIME

Art and politics... and death in Dublin

When a Dublin art dealer is found lying in a pool of blood and a valuable French Impressionist painting is discovered missing, Inspector Peter McGarr must confront a crowd of the dealer’s questionable cohorts: a double-dealing business partner, a neurasthenic wife, an embittered son, and a gardener/IRA bomb-thrower. McGarr maintains his gutsy composure, aided by his sassy wife, Noreen, an art expert, and a pensioned-off bomb-squad dog, the “P.M.”—Prime Minister—of the title.

This is tough, literate, and suspenseful fiction, in which the sights and sounds of Dublin come to palpable life.

“Gill’s best yet by far”—Kirkus Reviews

“I haven’t had this much ratiocinative delight since—well, since Sherlock Holmes.”

—Nick B. Williams, Los Angeles Times

“Gill knows his Ireland and his police work.... What a pleasure to read a crime novelist who does not fall back on platitudes and cliché writing!’

—The New. York Times Book Review

“A fastidious craftsman, Gill conveys with equal eloquence the idiom of French art experts, IRA bomb-throwers, and garrulous Dublin servants’.’

—Philadelphia Inquirer

U.K.£1 95

U.S.A $3 50

Mystery

Cover design by Neil Stuart!

Cover photograph by Arthur Tress

ISBN 0 14 00 7323 X