Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger's Moll by Simon Brett

Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger's Moll by Simon Brett

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Another hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo!

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Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger's Moll by Simon Brett

Due to financial hardships at Tawcester Towers, the Dowager Duchess has decreed that the only way the family fortunes can be restored is to marry Blotto off.to an American Reluctantly, Blotto, together with Twinks and his trusty chauffeur Corky Froggett set sail. Awaiting him in Illinois is fabulously wealthy heiress Mary Chapstick, the only daughter of meat-packing magnate Hiram P. Chapstick I. But it's Twinks who discovers early on that all is not as it seems and that Hiram P. Chapstick I is in fact up to his neck in a bootlegging operation run by the notorious Chicago mobster, Spagsy Chiaparelli. Will Blotto and Twinks ever make it back to dear old Blighty?

Born in 1945, Simon Brett was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a First Class Honours degree in English. A great many of his published works are crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter and Feathering series.

Simon was chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1986-7 and of the Society of Authors from 1995-7. He lives near Arundel in West Sussex and is married with three grownup children, one grandson, one granddaughter, and four cats.

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ISBN 13 9781780334738
ISBN 10 1780334737
Title Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger's Moll
Author Simon Brett
Series Blotto Twinks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 2012-07-19
Number of pages 208
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.