The Riverside Villas Murder

Download or read book The Riverside Villas Murder written by Kingsley Amis and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring.