Simon Brett. (2005). The Torso in the Town: A Fethering Mysery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Simon Brett. 2005. The Torso in the Town: A Fethering Mysery. Blackstone Publishing.

Simon Brett, The Torso in the Town: A Fethering Mysery. Blackstone Publishing, 2005.

Simon Brett. The Torso in the Town: A Fethering Mysery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2005.

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     Simon Brett is the creator of four series of detective novels, the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter, Fethering, and Blotto & Twinks series. His 1984 stand-alone novel A Shock to the System was adapted as a film starring Michael Caine. He was awarded an OBE in 2016 for his services to literature and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Before turning to writing full time, he worked with BBC radio and London Weekend Television Other radio work includes several one-off plays for Radio 4 and a number of episodes of the Baldi detective series. A former president of Britain's Crime Writers Association, he is president of the Detection Club, as well as being involved with various writers' organizations.

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A dinner party at an English mansion with some stuffy, not-very-close friends is not exactly Jude's cup of tea—but the practically mummified torso of a woman found in the cellar is right up her alley. There is no way of knowing how long the dead body has been there, or even who it once was. Intrigued by this new mystery, Jude elicits the help of her reluctant neighbor, Carole, to help solve the case. And perhaps in the process she can snap Carole out of her growing depression, the result of a recently failed relationship.

Their detective work soon uncovers that Pelling House's previous owners include two divorced couples who harbor a lot of resentment—and Jude and Carole suspect that they may be harboring some dark secrets as well.

Once again, the two middle-aged women from Fethering find themselves embroiled in a puzzling whodunit.

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   • source: —Publishers Weekly
   • content: “As in their debut, the acclaimed The Body on the Beach (2000), the ladies from Fethering once again proceed totally outside the bumbling police investigation in a somehow utterly credible way, gaining access and insight where the police can’t.”
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     July 15, 2002
     British veteran Brett demonstrates that his mordant wit has not lost its power to amuse in this third Fethering mystery (after 2001's Death on the Downs). Standoffish Carole Seddon is nursing her wounds over the failure of her love affair with local barkeep Ted, while her neighbor and partner in crime-solving, Jude, is invited to a dinner party in nearby Fedborough. When one of the Roxby children, 15-year-old Harry, finds part of a dead body in the cellar of Pelling House, which the lad's family has recently moved into, Jude determines that investigating the crime is just the thing to get Carole back out of her shell. Her interest caught, Carole helps Jude delve further into the mysterious female "torso in the town," as they're calling it in Fedborough. Could the torso be the remnants of Virginia Hargreaves, once the wife of local character Roddy Hargreaves? She hasn't been seen in Fedborough in three years, which is how long ago the experts say the victim died. Carole and Jude push their noses further and further into the business of Fedborough to dig up any little secrets that could have a bearing on the crime. Brett uses their nosiness as a vehicle for a merry skewering of middle-class pretentiousness, while presenting a dandy whodunit. Readers who have been missing the author's Charles Paris and Mrs. Melita Pargeter will find much to amuse them in this delightful new series.

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Once again, the two middle-aged women from Fethering find themselves embroiled in a puzzling whodunit.

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