Лучшие книги Колина Уотсона

Роман Колина Уотсона "Здесь был Хопджой" относится к "детективам без выстрелов", особенно ценимым любителями жанра. На русском языке произведения К.Уотсона ранее не издавались.

Выпуск 1.
Сборник составляют остросюжетные романы двух американских писателей - Р.Макдональда, Э.Гарднера и английского - К.Уотсона. В центре каждого из них - загадочное убийство, вечный конфликт между преступлением и правосудием, личностью и системой

В издание вошли романы "Ночной портье" И.Шоу, "Здесь был Хопджой" К.Уотсона и повесть "Шестеро обреченных" С.-А.Стеэмана.

In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia.
But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat’s neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen. This time it looks like foul play, unless a surfeit of marshmallows had led the late and rather unlamented Mr Gwill to commit suicide by electrocution. (‘Power without responsibility’, murmurs Purbright.)
How were the dead men connected, both to each other and to a small but select band of other town worthies? Purbright becomes intrigued by a stream of advertisements Gwill was putting in the Citizen, for some very oddly named antique items…

'TWO NAKED NUNS AVAILABLE PHILADELPHIA' is the strangest cable ever to come to Flaxborough. Inspector Purbright, who has coped with a few odd things in his time, finds it opens a rich lode of skullduggery, deceit and sudden death. Flaxborough is a quiet market town in the east of England, discreetly prosperous, respectable and brimming with provincial virtues. However, beneath the bland surface, strange passions seethe. The little foibles of its citizens afford more than ample scope to the wisdom and pertinacity of Inspector Purbright. First published in 1975, The Naked Nuns is the eighth novel in the Flaxborough series and displays Watson's characteristic dry wit and striking observation. 'Flaxborough, that olde-worlde town with Dada trimmings.' Sunday Times

Mrs Lilian Bannister is the second woman to disappear from quiet Flaxborough. For Inspector Purbright, what begins as a seemingly intractable problem soon develops into a frightening spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder.