Johnny Under Ground

Name: Johnny Under Ground
Brand: Farrago
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Part of the series: Inspector Tibbett

ISBN 9781788425612 Available 11 February 2027

£9.99

Inspector Tibbett joins his wife Emmy for the twentieth reunion of her Royal Air Force squad. It’s a bittersweet trip for Emmy: she loved her work with the RAF, and she was in love with one of the pilots, but their happiness ended abruptly when he killed himself, crashing his plane into the North Sea.

At the reunion, Emmy is surprised to realise that she may have been the last person to see her former sweetheart alive. And she’s more than startled to discover that virtually everyone connected with that fatal flight had something to hide…

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781788425612
Available: 11 February 2027
Pages: 256
Duration
Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm
Genre: Cosy Crime
Imprint: Farrago

Reviews

'For classic detection, [Moyes] is far and away best'

Times Literary Supplement

'A queen of crime … her name can be mentioned in the same breath as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh'

Daily Herald

'One of the deftest practitioners of the British procedural detective novel'

New York Times

'Gripping … very neatly worked out'

Evening Standard

'Intricate plots, ingenious murders, and skillfully drawn, often hilarious, characters'

Mystery Scene

'Really good detection'

The Spectator

'Ingenious and elegant, with nary a trace of formula'

Kirkus

'Patricia Moyes tells great tales in fascinating settings, and her Scotland Yard detective, Henry Tibbett, is perhaps the most believable of anyone detecting in this decade'

Los Angeles Times

About the author

Patricia Moyes

Patricia Moyes (1923-2000) was an acclaimed British mystery novelist, best known for her long running series featuring Inspector Henry Tibbett. The tenth book in the series, Who Saw Her Die?, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe award, and Moyes was inducted into The Detection Club, presided over by Agatha Christie, in the same year. Her early career also included work as a radar operator in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; as a screenwriter – with credits including the Robert Hamer film School for Scoundrels and Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected –; as an assistant editor for Vogue magazine; and as a translator.

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