The Paperback Sleuth - Death in Fine Condition

By: Andrew Cartmel

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Synopsis: Launching a new series, a cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villains in this love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits.Introducing a new series from the creator of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl Detective novels.Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks, when she&’s not spending her days combing the charity shops and jumble sales of suburban London for valuable collector&’s items, she&’s pining for the woman of her dreams and nimbly avoiding her landlord&’s demands for rent. The most elusive prize of all, her white whale, has surfaced — a set of magnificent, vintage Sleuth Hound crime novels. Gorgeous, and as rare as they come. Just one problem. They&’re not for sale. Still, that won&’t stop a resourceful woman like Cordelia… One burglary later, the books are hers. Unfortunately, the man she&’s just robbed turns out be one of London&’s most dangerous gangsters, and now he&’s on her trail and out for blood. Cordelia&’s best laid plans to pay the rent and woo the object of her affections start to fall apart, and she realises she may have placed herself in the crosshairs of a villain torn straight from the pages of her treasured novels.