Mystery Man
by:
Colin Bateman (author)
A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. He's the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency's clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their...
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A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. He's the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency's clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It's not as if there's any danger involved. It's an easy way to sell books to his gullible customers and Alison, the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be impressed. Except she's not - because she can see the bigger picture.And when they break into the shuttered shop next door on a dare, they have their answer. Suddenly they're catapulted along a murder trail which leads them from small-time publishing to Nazi concentration camps and serial killers...
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00AOKPNM6
Publish date: December 14th 2012
Publisher: CB Creative Books
Pages no: 284
Edition language: English
Series: Mystery Man (#1)
So there are people who are socially awkward and have trouble interacting with other people...and there are people who seem to have grown up in a cave without any human contact and therefore have no clue what is acceptable in human interaction and what isn't. The latter are more hillarious as book-c...
I had been looking for books to read for my personal goal of reading 10 books in the month of November and happened to stumble upon this book. According to some of the reviews I had read about it, it was a comedic mystery. I was so excited because it just seemed like a book that I would really love....
I liked a lot of this book. The main character is a neurotic, hypochondriac, and a racist. The last trait was generally well managed. I was drawn quickly into the world of No Alibis. I read the book quite quickly – which is a sign that I got into it. The story starts with two small episodes, one of ...