His 30-plus books include the novel Nicely Nurdled, Sir!, a homage to his lifelong love of cricket, and From the Sea End, a history of Sussex County Cricket Club, as well as The Bath Detective, a whodunnit trilogy.
He got a certain aspect of Bath right, certain characters even. Not necessarily people you understand, but ways in which corners of the place worked, characters being a hole for a person to exist in if you get me.
As whodunnits not that great to be honest.
So you wouldn’t give The Bath Detective a plug?
whoosh.
“characters being a hole for a person to exist in if you get me.”
“Introduction to Semiconductor Physics” or “Erotic Review” ?
OK, I was perhaps slightly unfair. I read one of them and wasn’t hugely, massively, impressed. But having characters whizzing in and out of pubs I know was fun….
ah, not the actually-more-famous late Christopher Lee….
“But having characters whizzing in and out of pubs I know was fun….”
Yeah, I got the same thing watching Shaun of the Dead. Although discerning the film from reality wasn’t always as easy.