Mrs Pargeter's past
Mrs Pargeter's friends know two important details about her marriage to her late husband. First, that it was blissfully happy. And second, that Mr Pargeter was not a man to bring his work home with him. So, while the chance of her ever being asked by the police what he did for a living is, naturally...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Severn House,
2025.
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| Series: | Brett, Simon. Mrs Pargeter mystery ;
10. |
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| Summary: | Mrs Pargeter's friends know two important details about her marriage to her late husband. First, that it was blissfully happy. And second, that Mr Pargeter was not a man to bring his work home with him. So, while the chance of her ever being asked by the police what he did for a living is, naturally, remote, Mrs Pargeter would be able to reply, in all honesty, that she doesn't know. What she does know is that Mr Pargeter's former associates are all respectable members of society, and if they were ever criminals, they are now 100% reformed. So when she learns that Short Head Shimmings, her late husband's former accountant, has fallen on hard times, she springs into action, chequebook at the ready. But Short Head has borrowed from the wrong people, and the infamous Batinga Brothers aren't out for his money - they're out for blood. The only way to save Short Head is to dismantle their criminal empire. |
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| Physical Description: | 192 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781448314676 1448314674 |
| Author Notes: | Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He is the author of more than one hundred books, including the much-loved Fethering Mysteries, the Charles Paris Mysteries and the Decluttering Mysteries, as well as the Mrs Pargeter Mysteries. In 2014, he was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's prestigious Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence and contribution to crime writing, and in the 2016 New Year's Honours he was awarded an OBE 'for services to literature'. |
