By the Pricking of Her Thumb

Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead - but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her terminally ill lover with a case which may not have a victim.

Inspired by the films of Kubrick, this stand-alone novel returns to the near-future of THE REAL-TOWN MURDERS, and puts Alma on a path to a world she can barely understand. Witty, moving and with a mystery deep at its heart, this novel again shows Adam Roberts' mastery of the form.

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By the Pricking of Her Thumb

Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead - but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her terminally ill lover with a case which may not have a victim.

Inspired by the films of Kubrick, this stand-alone novel returns to the near-future of THE REAL-TOWN MURDERS, and puts Alma on a path to a world she can barely understand. Witty, moving and with a mystery deep at its heart, this novel again shows Adam Roberts' mastery of the form.

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By the Pricking of Her Thumb

by Adam Roberts

Overview

Private Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead - but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her terminally ill lover with a case which may not have a victim.

Inspired by the films of Kubrick, this stand-alone novel returns to the near-future of THE REAL-TOWN MURDERS, and puts Alma on a path to a world she can barely understand. Witty, moving and with a mystery deep at its heart, this novel again shows Adam Roberts' mastery of the form.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781473221529
Publisher: Orion
Publication date: 08/23/2018
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 419 KB

About the Author

Adam Roberts is commonly described as one of the UK's most important writers of SF. He is the author of numerous novels and literary parodies. He is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, London University and has written a number of critical works on both SF and 19th Century poetry. He is a contributor to the SF ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Eighteen Months Later 1

1 The Thumb Itself 3

2 The Whodunnit-to 11

3 Tim Tym 25

4 The Man Who Calls Himself Stanley 32

5 Debt Tu, Brute 37

6 Tym Flies 49

7 Change is as Good as Arrest 63

8 Cognac-ered 70

9 Lez the Mis in Person 78

10 The Slabmiralty 87

11 The Gate in the High Place 97

12 The Golden Meteor 107

13 The Kry Twins 113

14 Home Again 119

15 Forbury Gardens 130

Part 2 The Dawn of Man 135

Part 3 The Infinite 199

Part 4 Beyond Jupita 231

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