Twistery #6.
The murderer sent Dalgliesh an orange. The famous detective immediately knew where to look for the body.
The murderer sent Dalgliesh an orange. The famous detective immediately knew where to look for the body.
The killer gave himself away by removing a small piece of flesh from beneath the victims’ noses. It was as good as a confession. “This is one for Marvell,” said the chief. Psychological profiler Dr Hank Marvell was not a universally popular figure among the officers of Scotland Yard’s Weird Crimes Unit (WCU). Perhaps it …
The dead man held an empty envelope. According to hearsay, the police found 20 identical letters on or around the corpse. Blame it on sloppy journalism. Or a mischievous Police Press Officer with a fondness for bad puns. “There was no letter in the envelope,” Sergeant Jan Serengeti told the crime reporter for the …
The dead man held an empty envelope. According to hearsay, the police found 20 identical letters on or around the corpse.
The Exsanguinist is a mini-book I’ve written that comes out in France this month. It’s in English, but aimed at readers for whom English is a second language. It’s published by Didier, the imprint Paper Planes. Paper Planes editor is Rupert Morgan, the author of some very funny satirical novels set in a parallel …