One Foot in the Grave: 6 (The James Pibble Mysteries) - Tapa blanda

"Dickinson, literate and provocative as ever, proves once again that he has a sure touch for the unexpected." -The Washington Post Book World "Full of tension and hidden menace. This British author is a virtuoso."-The New York Times Book Review "Dickinson, as ever, is the master of any milieu he cares to invent."-The Nation "Peter Dickinson is the best thing that has happened to serious, sophisticated, witty crime fiction since Michael Innes." -The Sunday Times "A masterpiece . . . caviar for the mystery zealot." -Los Angeles Times

CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: Now-retired Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble isn't about to go quietly into the night-not when there's a murder case or two (or three) to solveAt Flycatchers, a well-to-do nursing home watched over by no-nonsense nurse Jenny, one-time detective James Pibble shuttles between his nothing-to-live-for present and memories of the crimes he's solved-or failed to. He's roused from his listless existence when he discovers a dead body on top of the water tower.Security guard George Tosca isn't the only one at Flycatchers who has met his maker a bit too abruptly. There have been other suspicious deaths in the last three years, including those of military man Sir Archibald Gunter and Bertie Foster-Banks, an inveterate gambler and shareholder in the home. The arrival of a woman in black sets off a sinister chain of events, and before he knows it, Pibble is on the case. As he travels down a twisting path of blackmail and escalating violence, Pibble finds that his life is suddenly filled with purpose again. He will bring a cunning killer to justice-or die trying. But the real reason he went up to the tower on that stormy winter night is linked to a secret he'll carry to his grave.