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by Peter Guttridge (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 356 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (7 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074721932X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747219323
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,602,221 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh a minute!, 4 Mar 2001
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gets Better with time!!, 2 Feb 2006
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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...

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4.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant blend of horror and comedy, 16 Jan 2001
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars 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
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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
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