Deadline: And, Let Sleeping Dogs Die (The Simon Bognor Mysteries #3)

By: Tim Heald

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Synopsis: To learn who killed a loathsome gossip columnist, Bognor joins the paperStaggering homeward from a banquet, St. John Derby decides it would be easier to stagger back to work instead. When he reaches his desk, the booze-addled gossip columnist treats himself to a massive tumbler of port and calls for a taxi. By the time the cab arrives, the port is spilled on the carpet, mingling with the blood leaking from Derby&’s cut throat. No one will mourn his death. Special investigator Simon Bognor is dispatched to get the scoop on who finished off the sodden old scribe. Journalism is not Bognor&’s field—in fact, he can barely type—and the tame missives that pepper the paper&’s gossip section strike him as too boring to kill for. But as he pokes around the daily newspaper&’s offices, he finds quite the story indeed—one that will either land him on the front page, or among the obituaries.