Limey Gumshoe: The True-life Adventures of an Undercover Detective

Limey Gumshoe: The True-life Adventures of an Undercover Detective

by WillRandall (Author)

Synopsis

House-sitting in Boston one winter, Will Randall picks up with one of his more disreputable travel buddies, Jack J. Makepeace, and life gets a great deal more exciting. Makepeace introduces Randall to his current employers, Chestnut Investigations, and soon Will finds himself appointed apprentice Private Investigator. He tails mongrels and errant husbands, attends a seminar on Blood Spatter and is recruited in a lapdancing club by an anti-government go-go girl. Then emotional stakes are suddenly raised when Will Randall, unlikely Limey Gumshoe, finds himself investigating the disappearance of a sixteen-year-old girl from her affluent home, and fighting to save a vulnerable boy from the housing projects from a miscarriage of justice. With his latest adventures in Limey Gumshoe, Will Randall gives us an often hilarious, sometimes scary, eye-opening perspective on the bizarre world of private investigation.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 01 Oct 2009

ISBN 10: 0349120404
ISBN 13: 9780349120409
Book Overview: * Randall travels to the US gives us his hilarious perspective on the nation that invented the modern-day gumshoe

Media Reviews
Highly entertaining . . . there is much pointed irony and satire to enjoy. The Times on Another Long Day on the Piste
A wonderful, amusing and affirmative book about that remarkable country, filled with laughter, color, and simple decency. Bravo, Mr. Randall. Bravo. Alexander McCall Smith, author, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, on Botswana Time
Author Bio
Will Randall is an ex-schoolteacher and writer who has travelled, taught, and found himself in outlandish situations all over the world.