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The Wooden Overcoat

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781471912269

Price: £18.99

ON SALE: 14th August 2013

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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Clifford Flush founded the Asterisk Club in Chelsea to provide a home for wrongfully acquitted murderers, being one himself. Qualified prospective members need only name the club as beneficiary in their wills in order to avail themselves of its comforts and unique services.

Unfortunately, there isn’t room for Benjamin Cann, a gentleman’s outfitter newly acquitted of murdering his mistress. So Flush arranges for Benjamin to be temporarily quartered next door in a rat-infested house inhabited by two artistic couples. When Benjamin and a female member of the Asterisk Club turn up dead, the two households both have reason to avoid the police and dispose of the bodies …

‘Ingenious and successful farce’ Sunday Times