Drawn from's own original screenplay the peak time ITV series starring David Warner, Nigel William's brilliant novel is an intriguing whodunnit set against a background of inter-union rivalry and double-dealing over multi-million pound pension funds. Charlie Alexander is a shambling private detective who is suddenly confronted with a dead body whose chief forms of identification is an address book with Charlie's name in it. Searching for the killer (who may also be after him) and with the intermittent aid of the murdered man's wife, Charlie stumbles through a series of alternatively comic, and dangersous encounters to a tense and ironic climax.
Nigel William's first novel, MY LIFE CLOSED TWICE, won the Somerset Maugham award.
Nigel William's first novel, MY LIFE CLOSED TWICE, won the Somerset Maugham award.
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