Caught Short
The adventures of a paranoid drunken pervert
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Word Count
70,750 words, Guess
Page Count
283 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-101413795897
- ISBN-139781413795899
- OCLC Control Number62744020
- Better World Books9781413795899
- Open LibraryOL8452650M
Description
Dick Short, an odd-job man of no fixed abode, finds himself penniless in an isolated coastal village with only his whimsical charm and rakish humor to see him through. An innocent-looking job brings him face-to-face with the ravishing Sylvia Swaddling, an art historian, and the fresh corpse of her husband Sidney, a research chemist who apparently died by accident. All is not what it seems. Sylvia has a dark hypnotic power which has an intoxicating sexual effect on him. He struggles to resist, but is quickly drawn into her web of intrigue. The village is a debauched plethora of twisting streets and alleyways, housing a close-knit community of highly emotive eccentrics, each with their own guilty secret. Short’s instinct tells him to run, but he is forced to abandon his cavalier attitude to life and face up to his emotional inadequacies in order to solve a centuries-old supernatural mystery and unmask a killer.
First Sentence
“Who the devil are you?” Sylvia demanded. “And what are you doing at my breakfast table?”
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