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A Healthy Way to Die
(1986)(The fourth book in the Inspector Peckover series)
A novel by Michael Kenyon
At the sumptuous SimpSon's SuperSpa thousands of pounds change hands while the rich and corpulent clientele battle to fight the flab.
But pounds that are not of the financial variety are harder to lose, as wheezy members of Millicent Wildwood's aerobics class soon find out.
So when one hapless participant suddenly drops dead during a particularly arduous stretch and firm exercise no one, at first, suspects murder.
Enter Constable Jason Twitty, ex-Harrovian SuperSleuth, sartorially striking in embroidered bolero and cowboy boots, whose visit is supposed to be purely routine.
But when he has a nasty experience in the jacuzzi, and is warned off the investigation by an unseen attacker, his sleuthing instincts are naturally aroused ...
It very soon becomes apparent that some of the SuperSpa's inhabitants are interested in much more than the pursuit of the body beautiful.
'Hilarious ... a plot that grips like a clothespeg' - Times Literary Supplement
A highly acclaimed crime thriller writer, Michael Kenyon is the author of sixteen other novels, including the classic May You Die In Ireland. This is his first book to feature Jason Twitty and marks the welcome reappearance of Chief Inspector Peckover - Bard of the Yard - the poetic veteran of four previous sleuthing adventures.
Michael Kenyon was born in Huddersfield in 1931. He was a reporter for the Bristol Evening Post, News Chronicle, and the Guardian, and has taught English and journalism at universities in the USA. For seven years he lived in France, and recently worked as cook to an American family in their beach palace on Long Island. He is married with three daughters.
Genre: Mystery
But pounds that are not of the financial variety are harder to lose, as wheezy members of Millicent Wildwood's aerobics class soon find out.
So when one hapless participant suddenly drops dead during a particularly arduous stretch and firm exercise no one, at first, suspects murder.
Enter Constable Jason Twitty, ex-Harrovian SuperSleuth, sartorially striking in embroidered bolero and cowboy boots, whose visit is supposed to be purely routine.
But when he has a nasty experience in the jacuzzi, and is warned off the investigation by an unseen attacker, his sleuthing instincts are naturally aroused ...
It very soon becomes apparent that some of the SuperSpa's inhabitants are interested in much more than the pursuit of the body beautiful.
Praise for Michael Kenyon
'Hilarious ... a plot that grips like a clothespeg' - Times Literary Supplement
A highly acclaimed crime thriller writer, Michael Kenyon is the author of sixteen other novels, including the classic May You Die In Ireland. This is his first book to feature Jason Twitty and marks the welcome reappearance of Chief Inspector Peckover - Bard of the Yard - the poetic veteran of four previous sleuthing adventures.
Michael Kenyon was born in Huddersfield in 1931. He was a reporter for the Bristol Evening Post, News Chronicle, and the Guardian, and has taught English and journalism at universities in the USA. For seven years he lived in France, and recently worked as cook to an American family in their beach palace on Long Island. He is married with three daughters.
Genre: Mystery
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