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Laid-off lathe operator-turned-private investigator Joe Sixsmith is suddenly very popular, and not just with the ladies. Though he doesn't know a putter from a nine iron, he's being implored to come to the rescue of one Christian Porphyry, the scion of the upper-crust family that owns the most exclusive country club in Luton. Porphyry faces expulsion for the heinous crime of cheating at golf.
Inexplicably, political boss/crime czar "King Rat" Ratcliffe is also interested in employing Joe, offering him some very attractive surveillance work in sunny Spain. But Sixsmith's more intrigued by the first case, especially when a possible witness to the alleged indiscretion mysteriously vanishes.
It's not unusual for Joe to feel out of his depth, but this time he feels out of his class too. Suddenly he faces a potentially fatal pummeling from a variety of sources--and is in grave peril of discovering just how dangerous a contact sport golf can be.
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‘Told with humour and a light touch... ideal summer reading’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Delightful light reading... highly entertaining’ Literary Review
What a great deal of pleasure for readers lies in the pages of this little book’ reviewingtheevidence.com
‘A superb comic mystery’ West Australian
Acclaim for the Joe Sixsmith series:
‘“Killing the Lawyers’’...is entertaining, sly, jokey...cynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue – all the virtues we expect from Hill' The Times
'Splendid moments in this entertaining mystery' Sunday Telegraph
'A thoroughly engaging investigator' TLS
'This is high-speed pantomine... with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action' Mail on Sunday
'The Sixsmith series has a buoyancy and delectability of its own’ Independent
A sweltering summer is always bad news for the private detective business. Thieves, fraudsters and philanderers take the month off and the only swingers in town are the ones to be found on the 19th hole of the Royal Hoo Golf Course. The civilized reputation of the `Hoo' is in trouble, however.
Shocking allegations have been directed at one of its leading members, Chris Porphyry. When Chris turns to Joe Sixsmith, PI, he's more than willing to help (well, he hasn't got any other clients). Before long, though, Joe's on the trail of a conspiracy that starts with missing balls, and ends with murder...
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- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0061451983
- ISBN 13 9780061451980
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