The Last Houseparty

A Crime Novel

By: Peter Dickinson

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Paperback | 7 April 2015

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In this gripping novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the past to solve a mystery

At the elegant English manor known as Snailwood, tourists come daily to hear decades-old gossip about the second wife of the sixth earl. Zena was a remarkable young woman whose scandalous reputation has been dimmed neither by time nor by her bizarre death. In the 1930s, Zena was the star of a notorious party set whose members included playwrights, politicians, and Nazi sympathizers. They passed wild weekends at Snailwood, arguing about politics and drinking until dawn. At the center of their parties was the manor’s magnificent tower clock. The clock stopped long ago, but the darkness of its legacy continues to spread.

When a workman offers to fix the clock for free, the only remaining survivor of the old days is forced to revisit her memories of Zena’s last mad party, when death came to Snailwood and Britain changed forever.

Industry Reviews

"The Last Houseparty is so subtly done and so cunningly constructed that I felt I wanted to read it twice in order to get the full satisfying joy of it, I could have read it a third time immediately afterwards without hardship. He sets new standards in the mystery field that will be hard to live up to." -Ruth Rendell

"Absolutely satisfying." -Los Angeles Times

"Elegant prose . . . [Dickinson] fairly stands the reader's hair on end." -The Atlantic

"A more satisfying thriller is hard to imagine. . . . Dickinson is a writer of distinction." -Publishers Weekly

"An ever-elegant writer's best book." -Kirkus Reviews

"One of the most original mystery story writers of the decade." -The New York Times Book Review

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