The Smiling Affair [Paperback]

Jeremy Sheldon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2006

It's simple really. After years of hunting ghosts in California for a living, Jay Richards is tired of the whole business. His life is full of jokers and hoaxers, swindlers and sceptics - and that's just his clients. Things soon get even more problematic for Jay when he's hired by heiress Zelda Smiling to investigate a possible haunting at Cranmere Hall, her family's ancestral seat and home to her glamorous twin sister Helena. For a start, Helena broke Jay's heart years before. Worse, Helena seems to have left her husband and run off with a lover...although this doesn't stop Jay from thinking that she's been murdered. Is our hapless hero just bitter and paranoid? Or are his suspicions reasonable? And is any of this connected with the spectral figure that seems to be stalking the corridors of the sprawling mansion each night in Helena's absence?

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About the Author

Jeremy Sheldon was born in 1971 in London where he has worked as a script-reader, a DJ and a university lecturer. He was educated at Eton College and the University of East Anglia where he was awarded an MA in Creative Writing. His collection of short stories, The Comfort Zone, was published by Cape in 2002.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Vintage Books; New edition edition (July 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0099437287
• ISBN-13: 978-0099437284
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sheldon scores!, August 4, 2005

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Mr. Ian Crocombe (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smiling Affair (Hardcover)

I've just finished reading "The Smiling Affair" and wished the book would never end. It's a modern take on the noir genre, with the protagnist taking a trip through time and space. Sheldon's dry take on saturated wealthy westerners is punctuated by ghosts and lies, a cracking read.