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Summer's Lease
Summer's Lease
Author: John Mortimer
Delightful, charming, eccentric. Mortimer reveals on every papge a sene of the absurd, a shrewd eye for human foibles, and an infallible sense of comic timing. Raises mystery to the level of a serious novel, while still retaining a kind of detacked amusement. Combines some of the social sweep of Brideshead with the hugger-mugger of Rumpold... ex...  more »
ISBN: 139098
Publication Date: 1988
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Viking
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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When a Brit family leases a house in a Tuscan village for the summer, they get more than they bargained for. To begin, wifey's womanizing father forces himself into the party. They shortly run out of water. Their landlord has disappeared in a mysterious manner, his agent having met his demise under questionable circumstances. Wifey finally puts it all together although not to the satisfaction of your typical "Sherlock Holmes" fanatic. No deep reading here, merely a pleasurable read in the vein of Wodehouse.


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