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Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the Silver Screen

By: Simon Brett
Narrated by: Simon Brett
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Another hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo!

The end of the cricket season spells gloom for Blotto, until he is invited to bat against the Hollywood cricket team out in sunny LA, where rain never stops play. And so begins the latest adventure for Blotto and his supremely gifted sister Twinks. Although their mother, the Dowager Duchess of Tawcester, keeps a strict rein on her two children, she knows America is full of wealthy young men, all of whom will fall in love with her daughter - and marriage to a Texan millionaire would solve the Tawcester financial problems once and for all.

So, accompanied by trusty chauffeur Corky Froggett, the intrepid siblings head out to California. On arrival in Hollywood they are invited to a glitzy party where they are introduced to a firmament of Hollywood stars, directors and gossip columnists, but the mood of the party suddenly curdles with the breaking news that beautiful starlet Mimsy La Pim - the (former) love of Blotto's life - has been kidnapped. And Blotto is determined to make it his personal mission to rescue her.

But in the world of old-fashioned cricket matches, gigantic Hollywood egos, film-making disasters and merciless crooks, it soon falls to Twinks to rescue her brother from the various messes he creates when attempting to rescue his damsel in distress. Will the siblings ever get back to Tawcester Towers - or will it be a case of death before wicket?©2017 Simon Brett Cosy Crime Fiction Mystery Fiction Sports Crime Adventure
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A hilarious and old-fashioned whodunit romp in the mold of P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie, with just a tiny dollop of John Buchan thrown in for good measure. Highly entertaining
Simon Brett has a deft hand with parody, playfulness and punch lines
Simon Brett is one of British crime's most assured craftsmen, with idiosyncratic characters proving winning creations... A feast of red herrings, broadly drawn characters, and gentle thrills and spills litter the witty plot. Crime writing just like in the good old days, and perfect entertainment
Murder most enjoyable... An author who never takes himself that seriously, and for whom any fictional murder can frequently form part of the entertainment industry (Colin Dexter on Simon Brett)
A very traditional English mystery, the characters are as entertaining, charismatic and all out fantastic as they were in the first. Mystery readers will want the adventures of Blotto and Twinks to continue for a very long time to come
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Simon Brett just knows how to pen the silly, solipsistic zaniness of Blotto & Twinks with delight and fun. Just a pleasure to fill your ears with the essential Britishness of times now fading. I've loved the series and await the next one with impatience.

Sublime silliness

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Fast becoming my favourite book series. Levity, capers and twinkly humour. But don't be fooled by the high jinks and easy listening.... there's jolly good plotting, sub-plotting and sub-sub-plotting! Simon Brett is a master at hiding hard work inside a raspberry meringue. You get the impression he knows what all his minor characters are doing when they're not on the page - polishing firearms, translating Virgil, or lovingly applying linseed oil to cricket bats, perhaps. Please keep them coming!

Creamy eclair!

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Very PG Woodhouse style but with a better storyline and more slapstick. It is a funny story made even more hilarious by the quality of the reading.

Simon Brett in usual great form

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