The Ho Ho Ho Mystery (Third Pig Detective Agency)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0007364016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The festive follow-up to The Third Pig Detective Agency.When Father Christmas goes missing on Christmas Eve eve, Mrs Christmas calls on our intrepid hero Harry Pigg to track him down.What follows is another hardboiled caper featuring fairy tale villains, plenty of red herrings, a few close shaves, a couple of punch ups and a very clever twist.Aided and abetted by his sidekicks Jack Horner and the genie from the lamp, Harry tries to save Christmas before time runs out.If only he didn’t have to deal with those bloody annoying elves.
Bob Burke lives just outside Limerick in Ireland. The Ho Ho Ho Mystery is his second novel.
The design is an absolute gem, with coffee stains on some pages and a genuinely vintage looking cover.’ culch‘A cross between Chinatown and all the fairy tales you've ever read.’ LIMERICK LEADER. ‘This is undoubtedly the most whimsical hardboiled detective novel ever written, and it's utterly delightful.’ MATT REES author of THE BETHLEHEM MURDERS‘The Third Pig Detective Agency is a wonderful pastiche of noir-ish detective stories like The Maltese Falcon
"Good fun. Excellent continuation of the series!" according to J Bryden Lloyd. Having read and very much enjoyed the first book, I got this and managed to get to read it before my daughter knew I had it.Starting where the initial book finished, this story does very well to continue the ever-increasing problems of the ever opressed Harry Pigg and his hapless 'team' as they take on a new mystery and go in search of the missin. Clever and well written D.E. The trick with this sort of genre is to write a story that permits the reader to effortlessly suspend belief and become engaged in a mystery which invokes characters from numerous fairy tales and fables. Few writers could pull this off. Mr. Burke does in each of his books so far. I have read this and the first one and look forward to the third in. Fairy Tale Crime Louise Alcorn Cute series, amusing voice. It's pretty light, which is what I was looking for - and just in time for Xmas! I got the first in this series because it was recommended based on my adoration of Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime series (which I wish he'd write more of), but this series has less depth and the writing isn't up to Fforde's standard. That sa