Lynne truss new book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Such local lowlifes as “Stanley-knife Stanley” hardly register on his radar, and when an energetic and enthusiastic newcomer, Constable Twitten (a name designed to irritate the opponents of comic crime), begins to shake things up at the station, Steine is obliged to accept that things are slowly turning nasty in the city of Brighton, some time before it becomes London-by-the-Sea. His life is comfortable – no crime and no criminals (he claims), just a series of undemanding duties. ![]() ![]() After the discreetly handled scene of mass murder that opens the book (in which two rival criminal gangs destroy each other), Inspector Steine maintains that there is no longer any lawbreaking in Brighton, and resists any suggestions to the contrary. Truss’s locale here is Brighton, the year 1957. Truss is, of course, most celebrated for her tongue-in-cheek book on grammar, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, but she has also made her mark as a novelist and as a radio dramatist – this new book is an extension of her successful BBC Radio 4 series featuring the obdurate Inspector Steine. ![]()
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