by Lynne Truss
Part of Constable Twitten
First published 2019
Summer brings tourists to Brighton, and the Brighton Belles stand ready to help visitors with any question. They direct people to the train station, estimate pebbles on the beach, and explain why a young man sits dead in a deckchair with blood streaming down. Constable Twitten suspects the killing connects to a disreputable nightclub and the family who operates it. Inspector Steine pursues his own interests, including commissioning a waxwork figure of himself and handling an surprise visitor. Sergeant Brunswick spots his chance to work undercover at last. The three detectives return for another case in this second book of Lynne Truss's crime series, where a romantic's death leads them into Brighton's shadowy entertainment world and the schemes of a aristocratic swindler.
Genres: fiction, 20th-century, mystery, crime, british-literature, detective
Vibes: atmospheric, clever, darkly-comedic, suspenseful, witty
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, ensemble-cast, locked-mystery, undercover-operation
Setting: Brighton, Brighton Beach, Nightclub
Period: 1950s
285 pages · Hardcover · Bloomsbury Publishing
Content warnings: murder, violence