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Colin Watson (Author)
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Publication Date: 13 Oct 1983

Within the quiet respectable market town of Flaxborough lurks a dangerous criminal: someone who has no compunction in committing horrific crimes. A secret agent has been murdered in unsavoury circumstances connected to an acid bath and it is up to Inspector Purbright to investigate, but it does not take long for two more operatives to arrive in Flaxborough looking for the same answers. How can one of their colleagues have been murdered in such a bland, provincial town? As ever Purbright must use all his skills as an investigator to get to the truth. Described by the Literary Review as 'wickedly funny,' Hopjoy was Here, the third in the Flaxborough series, was first published in 1962.

'[A] macabre and jolly English tale.' New Yorker

'Mr Watson has an unforgivably sharp eye for the ridiculous.' Anthony Boucher, New York Times

Faber Finds will be reissuing all the Flaxborough novels in sequence.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Mandarin; New edition edition (13 Oct 1983)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0413525309
  • ISBN-13: 978-0413525307
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,609,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'[A] macabre and jolly English tale' - "New Yorker". 'Mr. Watson has an unforgivably sharp eye for the ridiculous' - Anthony Boucher, "New York Times". --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Colin Watson was born in 1920. He worked as a journalist but was most famous for his twelve 'Flaxborough' novels, set in a small fictional town in England. Four of the 'Flaxborough' novels were adapted for television by the BBC under the series title Murder Most English and Watson's Detective Inspector Purbright remains one of the most intellectual detectives in the crime genre. Colin Watson died in 1983. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A small market town takes on a secret agent - and wins 10 April 2002
By M. Branscombe
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Small-town seediness and guile are a match for officaldom any day, as British Intelligence find out when they come to Flaxborough looking for a missing agent. Like most of Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles, this is a bitingly funny book with an exquisite depiction of Hopjoy as a no-quite-James Bond, complete with gadgets and KGB mementoes. Inspector Purbright surveys the usual band of small-time swindlers and the men from the ministry with the same amused detachment he shows his Pekinese-obsessed boss. Taken individually everything in the book seems quite plausible: taken together it's a hugely funny and tongue-in-cheek view of the British view of authority (something to be got round) and intelligence (something to be suspected). Another triumph for Purbright and an under-rated classic.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another sly dig from master satirist Colin Watson 29 April 2008
By Jernau Gurgeh
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Another swipe at middle England from understated satirist Colin Watson. At first glance the Flaxborough novels are detective stories about a market town in Eastern England. Upon reading them they become a loving critique of British social pretensions and foibles, all quietly observed and tolerated by Inspector Purbright.

In this instalment MI6 man Hopjoy has vanished and Purbright seeks to discover whether he has been murdered by spies, a jealous husband or has faked the whole thing and disappeared. Featuring the regular cast, including Sergeant Sid Love and introducing Mrs Bernadette Croll. Particular highlights involve a hairstyle sure to delight Star Wars fans and a forensics expert who out CSI's CSI. All from 1962
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5.0 out of 5 stars As good as the series 2 Oct 2009
By Natatores
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Well written, subtle and amusing read. I am reading the books after re-watching the TV series which has simply confirmed to me what a terrific job they made of capturing the essence of Flaxborough when four of the books were filmed back in the seventies.
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