Book description
The appreciation of antique objects is not perhaps Detective
Sergeant Sidney Love's forte, yet his critical appraisal of Lot
Thirty-Four - comprising two golf balls, an LMS railway tumbler, an
old meat mincer, two decanter stoppers, a soap dish and a moulded
relief of a cottage entitled 'At the End of Life's Lane' - at an
antiques auction which sets events in motion. The sale of Lot
Thirty-Four at the handsome price of £400, together with further
curious developments, leads Inspector Purbright to the heart of a
chilling but decidedly genteel murder mystery... First published in
1980, Plaster Sinners is the eleventh novel in the Flaxborough series
and displays Watson's characteristic dry wit and striking observation.
'Flaxborough is Colin Watson's quiet English town whose outward
respectability masks a seething pottage of greed, crime and vice...Mr
Watson wields a delightfully witty pen dripped in acid.' Daily
Telegraph 'Arguably the best, and certainly the most consistent of
comic crime writers, delicately treading the line between wit and
farce...Funny, stylish and good mysteries to boot.' TIME OUT 'One of
the best. As always with Watson, the writing is sharp and stylish and
wickedly funny!' Literary Review
