The Riverside Villas Murder
by:
Kingsley Amis (author)
A classic armchair mystery, THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER has for its hero a 14-year-old boy, Peter Furneaux. Like all 14 year olds he is hovering hopefully on the brink between sexual inexperience and initiation, and in this book, under our very eyes, Peter suddenly becomes an adult! A crime,...
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A classic armchair mystery, THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER has for its hero a 14-year-old boy, Peter Furneaux.
Like all 14 year olds he is hovering hopefully on the brink between sexual inexperience and initiation, and in this book, under our very eyes, Peter suddenly becomes an adult!
A crime, truly murderous, is committed by an unknown and almost unidentifiable assailant. Only Peter begins to guess at the truth--a dangerous truth--which leads him to the river bank by moonlight. A delightful book, and as with all works by Kingsley Amis, guaranteed to please.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780140071955 (0140071954)
Publish date: 1973
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Edition language: English
You know those tiresome books where there's a murder, the police are baffled, and some intrepid 14 year old boy solves the case? The problem, of course, is the psychology. 14 year old boys are mostly interested in sex. They spend their time dreaming of girls. Since they can't usually get any, they m...
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