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A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans P D James

Murder most enjoyable Colin Dexter

Anyone for cricket and a spot of burglary

An idle conversation on the merits of the glorious game with an old Etonian chum is just the excuse Blotto needs to put himself forward for a cricket tour to foreign climes and so begins the next adventure for our intrepid duo where the action takes them to India where as everyone knows the finest cricket players hail from as well as the worlds most skilled jewel thieves

The Dowager Duchess has no problems in letting her two children go to the subcontinent as having her beautiful daughter Twinks married off to a massively rich Maharaja offers the Dowager Duchess the prospect of a permanent solution to the cashdraining maintenance of the Tawcester Towers plumbing

So Twinks joins Blotto on a steamer bound for India one that is full of young woman desperate to marry well there only once having encountered the dashing Blotto a lot of them fancy the idea of getting married before they reach their destination And unbeknownst to the siblings also on the ship is the international jewel thief Archie Montmorency passing himself off as one of Blottos cricketing entourage His real mission though is to steal the diamond which adorns the turban the Maharajah of Koorbleimee

Praise for Simon Brett

One of British crimes most assured craftsmen Crime writing just like in the good old days and perfect entertainment Guardian

Few crime writers are so enchantingly gifted Sunday Times

Simon Brett writes stunning detective stories I would recommend them to anyone Jilly Cooper