Book description
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a
holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he
finds his first corpse.
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in
the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in
the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient crime more
terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon
sandwiches, occasionally snookered and out of his mind. But never out
of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must
be a chase and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all...
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
Terry Pratchett
is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series,
the first of which,
The Colour of Magic
, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling
books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he
is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal and the
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, as well as being
awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his
books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into
thirty-seven languages.
