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I had seen out the night, the year and the decade in a blaze of luminous cocktails that were still throbbing somewhere at the back of my skull. I'd spent the night in a fashionable London nightclub. Someone had fainted. At least, that's what I assumed. But now the phone rings. I answer it. A friend's voice screams at me: \u003cstrong\u003eHe's dead  And they think I killed him \u003c\/strong\u003e It looked like it was going to be one of those days...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hunt is on for a murderer. There is no motive and far too many suspects. But there is one deadly clue - a bottle of mascara. \u003cem\u003eFind the mascara and you find the murderer \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not just fiction. It's how the '80s really were \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHuw Collingbourne\u003c\/strong\u003e knows what he is writing about, because he was there. 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