Quite Ugly One Morning
$33.75
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 September 1997
Summary
Quite Ugly One Morning: A Wickedly Entertaining Thriller
Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things.
Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it’s not the corpse, what is that awful smell?
A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349108858 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349108854 |
| Series: | Abacus |
| Author: | Christopher Brookmyre |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 1997 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 245mm x 203mm x 21mm |
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‘Thrillingly unpleasant’ ESQUIRE ‘A sharp, funny novel, with strong characters and some smart dialogue’ TLS ‘A wicked satire…excellent plotting and a goodly amount of acidic one-liners’ THE SCOTSMAN ‘a great title and a thrillingly unpleasant murder mytery.’ ESQUIRE ‘enjoy it and have a good rant, because it’s only fiction, isn’t it’ NURSING TIMES ‘Very violent, very funny. A comedy with political edge, which you take gleefully in one gulp’ LITERARY REVIEW ‘The dialogue is a joy throughout and the plot crackles along with confident gusto and intelligence…an assured debut by a talented writer’ THE TIMES
About The Author
Christopher Brookmyre
Born in Glasgow, once resident in Edinburgh, Christopher Brookmyre now lives in Aberdeen. He still supports St Mirren.
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