A Ghost of a Chance: Nick Madrid Series, Book 2
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Freelance writer Nick Madrid isn't thrilled when he is commissioned to spend a night on an allegedly haunted prehistoric barrow, and live to tell the tale. Especially when living to tell the tale isn't made an urgent priority. Then he discovers a dead man hanging upside down from a tree.
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"Ghostbusters meets Ghost-bonkers...Brilliant." Peter James
New Age meets the Old Religion (Satanism) when Nick Madrid is bothered, bewildered, but not necessarily bewitched by pagans, satanists and assorted weirdos. Seances, sabbats, a horse-ride from Hell and a kick-boxing zebra all come Nick's way as he obstinately tracks a treasure once in the possession of Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast: occultist, drug-fiend and all round bad egg. (Shortlisted for the 1998 Sherlock Award for the best comic detective in US and UK fiction.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
New Age meets the Old Religion (Satanism) when Nick Madrid is bothered, bewildered, but not necessarily bewitched by pagans, satanists and assorted weirdos. Seances, sabbats, a horse-ride from Hell and a kick-boxing zebra all come Nick's way as he obstinately tracks a treasure once in the possession of Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast: occultist, drug-fiend and all round bad egg. (Shortlisted for the 1998 Sherlock Award for the best comic detective in US and UK fiction.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Format:Hardcover
I read this in paperback but see there's no review for the hardback, which I assume is the same. I laughed so hard when I read this book - there's just so many weird and wonderful things in it - a guy who spends his free time as a kickboxing zebra. Nick Madrid and Bridget "Bitch of the Broadsheets" Frost are such a great double act - he's gentle and a bit soft, she's hard as nails but together they solve the mystery. I liked the Hollywood movies star (is it meant to be Al Pacino?) who does the film about Aleister Crowley convinced he's playing Oscar Wilde. Daft but wonderful.
Format:Paperback
I first read this novel just before the turn of the 20th century and thought it was prescient - and, of course, very, very funny. I've just re-read it and it just gets better with time. I don't want to go over the top but Guttridge is a combination of Nostradamus and the funniest writer you've ever met.
...Okay, that was over the top...
Format:Paperback
Not quite as good as the first in the series - No Laughing Matter - but this book is a really clever mixture of the stuff you get in horror stories, the daft end of New Age stuff and a lot of wisecracks. Bits were very scary, which is odd because overall it's very funny. The horse race is hilarious.
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Guttridge did it again!
The kick-boxing zebra did for me. The idea of a crime novel that's funny as well has always sounded a bit wet to me but this book proves me wrong - it's really, really good. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2001
Like nothing I've ever read before!
Ouch! I got this book because it's partly set in Brighton, which is where I live and when I read it I felt some of my beliefs were being trampled on because the author is very... Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2001
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