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Added to a bookbox 24 Febraury 2010

Taken from the British Mystery, Crime and Thriller book box, will add to Mt TBR!

An ok read.

14/07/11
Only just realised that I forgot to a JE for this in my rush to get it into the post, sorry!
Hope you have fun being the winner of the Int Sweepstakes, all those lovely books heading your way.

I love (Colin) Bateman and will read this book again before I move it along. Thank you so much!

Reread this well written and funny book - will try to get it travelling again soon
Here is the Guardian Review from 2009

Mystery Man

The Guardian, Saturday 16 May 2009 Article history In Bateman's latest novel, a (let's hope) heavily fictionalised version of the man who runs Belfast's real No Alibis crime fiction bookshop inadvertently becomes a private eye by picking up the loose ends when the proprietor of the detective agency next door disappears. The nameless protagonist, a self-deprecating saddo, OCD sufferer and hypochondriac who obsesses over car numberplates, is aided in his work by a self-appointed sidekick, beautiful Alison from the jeweller's shop across the way.
Together, they solve a series of cases that become more wonderfully ludicrous by the page. There's lots of laddish humour, and it's larded with interesting anoraky stuff about crime fiction past and present - although I'm not entirely convinced that murder mystery aficionados will relish being described as "a heady mix of silent-but-deadly farters, shoplifters, alcoholics, and students".

This book has been sitting on my shelf for too long.

Passed on to my sister who is enduring a lengthy hospital stay at RPA