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The protagonist in this book is the owner of no alibis, one of the leading mystery fiction bookshops in belfast. It is also the first installment in the mystery man book series. The mystery man books continue this trend and are all excellent, dr yes included. Yes mystery man book 3 on your kindle in under a minute.
A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. See all books authored by colin bateman, including divorcing jack, and mystery man, and more on. Colin bateman books list of books by author colin bateman. The mystery man book series by colin bateman includes books mystery man, the day of the jack russell, dr. When the private eye next door closes down, his customers come to the bookshop for help. As expected, the author, colin bateman does not disappoint at all. Colin bateman s mystery man dan starkey, the antihero of colin bateman s series crime novels he also writes standalones is a feckless magnet for murder and mayhem, especially as played by david thewlis in the 1998 movie of the first starkey novel, divorcing jack. Colin bateman talks about belfasts finest, and only, mystery book store. See the complete mystery man series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. The series follows the man with no name not clint eastwood, who runs a bookshop in belfast, northern ireland called no alibis.
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