Whatever’s Been Going On At Mumblesby?

First Edition.
The question taxing Detective Inspector Purbright’s brain was whether anything untoward had been going on in the tiny village of Mumblesby. Certainly the circumstances surrounding the death of ‘Rich Dick’ Loughbury, the solicitor, seemed generally beyond suspicion. And although his widow (if that was what she was) left a certain amount to be desired socially in local eyes, and his house was stuffed with antiques acquired without bills of sale from
neighbouring Mumblesby residents, there was nothing Purbright could actually put his finger on. That was, until the day of the funeral…
Colin Watson’s latest novel is another entertaining and witty excursion into rural deviance and the foibles of Flaxborough and its environs. Those who regularly await further bulletins from this much loved region of Britain with bated breath will not be disappointed. As H. F. R. Keating wrote on the occasion of his last novel, Plaster Sinners, ‘Watson’s Flaxborough begins to take on the solidity of Bennett’s Five Towns, with murder, murky past and much acidic comment added