Body Politic / the Bone Yard

An independent city dedicated to tourists attending the year-round Festival, where television is banned and crime is virtually non-existent, Edinburgh in 2020 has its drawbacks for blues-haunted private investigator Quintilian Dalrymple. \n\nWhen a guardswoman is found brutally murdered, it looks like the 'Ears, Nose and Throat Man' has returned. Quint is employed to investigate a conspiracy that reaches into a dark heart of corruption and threatens to dismember the body politic. \n\nTHE BONE YARD \n\nHogmanay 2021. The night of the year when the guards are less vigilant. The perfect time for murder... \n\nAnd this is just the first. Quint Dalrymple and his driver Davie are ordered by the Council of City Guardians to solve a series of murders in which cassette tapes are planted inside the victims. Tapes which leave musical clues to the killer's identity. \n\nSynopsis\nThis is an omnibus edition containing two books by Paul Johnston - 'Body Politic' and 'The Bone Yard'.


Genre: Science Fiction