Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger's Moll - Simon Brett

Résumé :

Horrors! Blotto is about to be married off . . . to an American!

So begins the latest adventure in the Blotto and Twinks series, and this time the aristocratic sleuthing siblings end up being transported across the Pond to the gangster-ridden hell-hole that is Prohibition Chicago.

Reluctantly, Blotto, together with Twinks set sail on ocean liner S/S His Majesty. He feels like a condemned man: awaiting him in Illinois is fabulously wealthy heiress Mary Chapstick, the only daughter of meat-packing magnate Hiram P. Chapstick III. But it's Twinks who discovers early on that all is not as it seems and that Chapstick III is in fact up to his neck in a bootlegging operation run by the notorious Chicago mobster, Spagsy Chiaparelli.

So Blotto and Twinks set out to unmask the villainy of Chapstick III and save Blotto from matrimony - but will they ever make it back to dear old Blighty again?


Praise for Simon Brett

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans.' P. D. James

'Murder most enjoyable.' Colin Dexter

'Simon Brett writes stunning detective stories. I would recommend them to anyone.' Jilly Cooper

'Few crime writers are so enchantingly gifted.' Sunday Times

'One of British crime's most assured craftsmen . . . Crime writing just like in the good old days, and perfect entertainment.' Guardian

Biographie:

Born in 1945, Simon Brett was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a First Class Honours degree in English. A great many of his published works are crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter and Feathering series.

Simon was chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1986-7 and of the Society of Authors from 1995-7. He lives near Arundel in West Sussex and is married with three grownup children, one grandson, one granddaughter, and four cats.