Dangerous Davies And The Lonely Heart
Leslie Thomas
  • Published: 11 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446440797
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Dangerous Davies And The Lonely Heart

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'Thomas's skill in yoking unlikely elements together is liitle short of hilarious. Dialogue skips along, people are roundly sketched, places set a vivid mood. Thomas. . . midway between Archer and Amis, keeps on giving fiction a good name. ' Mail on Sunday

Dangerous is back...

In this, the fourth of Leslie Thomas's novels about Dangerous Davies, the last detective, Davies has retired from the Metropolitan Police and set up as a private eye.

Cases are hard to come by until he is aburptly thrown into two mysteries - the murders of women answering lonely hearts advertisements, and the disappearance of a young girl student, a psychologist and a secret worth millions. But can Davies solve any of the mysteries and will his new career as a private detective be a success?

People with the amazing characters that are the trademark of any book by Leslie Thomas, this is a highly original detective story that is as ingenious as it is touching and funny.
  • Published: 11 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446440797
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

About the author

Leslie Thomas

Born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over two million copies.

Also by Leslie Thomas

Ormerod's Landing
Orders For New York
That Old Gang of Mine
The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving
The Complete Dangerous Davies
Soldiers and Lovers
In My Wildest Dreams
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Praise for Dangerous Davies And The Lonely Heart

Recomended to anyone who enjoys a good detective yarn with plenty of laughs

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Thomas's skill in yoking unlikely elements together is little short of hilarious. Dialogue skips along, people are roundly sketched, places set a vivid mood. Thomas... midway between Archer and Amis, keeps on giving fiction a good name

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