Book description
Two ex-lovers, he merely getting old, she already slowly dying, hear a
radio quiz programme about a scandal in which they were both involved at
the time of the Suez Crisis. Some time later she asks him to tell her
how he killed one of the other participants. He replies that he'd always
imagined she had done it. Who then did?
Little by little they re-tread the maze of high politics, espionage and
shady property deals and find the answer. Born in Zambia, Peter
Dickinson spent his childhood in Gloucestershire and was educated at
Eton and Cambridge, where he read English. Before writing full time, he
worked in various capacities on Punch
Magazine, where he reviewed detective novels. His own first two
detective novels, Skin Deep
and A Pride of Heroes
, set a still unsurpassed record by winning the Crime Writers'
Association Gold Dagger in successive years (1968 and 1969), and his 21
crime and mystery novels have been published in several languages. Peter
Dickinson is also one of the UK's most acclaimed children's writers. He
has twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's
Award, as well as the Guardian
Children's Fiction Award. He has been Chairman of the Society of
Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was
awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2009. He lives in
Hampshire, England.
