The Man That Got Away
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Publisher Description
A charming second comic crime novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss.
1957: In the beach town of Brighton, music is playing and guests are sunning themselves, when a young man is found dead, dripping blood, in a deck chair.
Constable Twitten of the Brighton Police Force has a hunch that the fiendish murder may be connected to a notorious nightspot, but his captain and his colleagues are-as ever-busy with other more important issues. Inspector Steine is being conned into paying for the honor of being featured at the Museum of Wax, and Sergeant Brunswick is trying (and failing) to get the attention of the distraught Brighton Belles who found the body. As the case twists and turns, Constable Twitten must find the murderer and convince his colleagues that there's an evil mastermind behind Brighton's climbing crime rate.
Our incomparable team of detectives are back for another outing in the second installment of Lynne Truss's joyfully quirky crime series.
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Truss's comic mystery debut, 2018's A Shot in the Dark, concluded with Constable Peregrine Twitten, of the Brighton, England, police force, discovering that the mastermind orchestrating organized crime in that seaside resort was none other than Mrs. Groynes, the police department's unassuming charlady. In this delightful sequel, also set in 1957, Twitten has been unable to persuade anyone else of that truth. His duel with Groynes and continued efforts to get his dim superior, Insp. Geoffrey Steine, to see the light serve as backdrop to his inquiry into the throat-slitting of 17-year-old Peter Dupont, a junior clerk in the Sewerage and Waterworks Department. By chance, Twitten previously eavesdropped on a cryptic conversation the victim had about running away with his girlfriend, Deirdre Benson; during that talk, Peter warned Deirdre that their plans must be kept secret from her violent family, which she claimed were responsible for killing "Uncle Ken" and leaving part of his body in a trunk at the train station. Twitten's dogged sleuthing and Steine's unrelenting idiocy build toward a surprising but logical reveal. Truss perfectly blends humor and detection.
