Death in Close-up

"Death in Close-up" by Livingston, Nancy, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. Mr Pringle, retired tax-man turned gumshoe, is in financial difficulty himself, and embarks on a little private tax advising. With a sense of foreboding, he answers the cri de coeur of Ashley Fallowfield, outrageous Programme Controller at Rainbow Television and a tax man‘s nightmare. But as Mr Pringle enters the studios he bumps into a body-bag containing the remains of Margarite Pelouse, guest star of the TV soap Doctors and Nurses... Unfortunately for Mr Pringle, this is just the first corpse he is to encounter. “Highly entertaining, very funny and a deliciously wry expose of the internal politics of a liigh profile television company” Yorkshire Post “Ms Livingston has an informative and frolicsome whirl with the TV crowd, their paraphernalia and pottiness” John Coleman, Sunday Times “A most engaging showbiz murder puzzle” Julian Symons, Independent “Lots of jokes and fizz” Matthew Coady, Guardian A Gollancz Paperback ISBn 0-575-05292-9 Crime Cover illustration by Tom Stimpson £4.50 net Nancy Livingston was born in Stockton-on-Tees. She has worked as an actress, an air stewardess and a TV production assistant. Her radio plays have been broadcast in Great Britain and abroad, and she has written four sagas: The Far Side of the Hill, The Land of Our Dreams, Never Were Such Times, and Two Sisters. Gollancz has published all eight of Nancy Livingston‘s crime novels: Trouble at Aquitaine (winner of the Crime Writers‘ Association Poisoned Chalice Award), Fatality at Bath & Wells, Incident at Parga, Death in a Distant Land (winner of the first Punch prize for the best comic crime novel), Death in Close-up, Mayhem in Parva, Unwillingly to Vegas, and Quiet Murder. Nancy Livingston is married to TV director/producer David Foster and they live near Ipswich. She is currently the Chairman of the Crime Writers‘ Association. Book details: 194 pages, published 1992. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.