Hopjoy Was Here [Import] [Hardcover]

Colin Watson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Walker and Co.; First American Edition edition (1962)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0000CLHVS
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,366,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant intriguing and humorous mystery, January 6, 1999

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This review is from: Hopjoy Was Here (Paperback)

The many twists in the plot mix with brilliantly drawn characters and understated and iconoclastic English humour. Watson takes you into an eccentric world and plot yet is always convincing, readable and entertaining. This is an outstanding book which deserves to be republished.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a classic whodunit..., March 11, 2004

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This review is from: Hopjoy Was Here (Paperback)

Something must have happened at number 14 Beatrice Avenue. Four policemen were maneuvering a bathtub out the front door and Detective Inspector Purbright was fishing about in the pipes. But was this a question of murder? An anonymous letter from a back-bedroom vigilante had darkly hinted at foul deeds in that quiet house. Both the owner, Gordon Periam, and his boarder, Brian Hopjoy, were missing. Inspector Purbright had found no corpus delicti...just a suspicious spill of acid and a nasty notion. Had a very clever killer poured his victim down the drain?