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Phil Lecomber

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in Slade Green, The United Kingdom

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Crime, Thriller, Historical Fiction

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Shamus Award-winning author PHIL LECOMBER was born on the outskirts of South East London - just a few hundred yards from the muddy swirl of the Thames.

Although he now resides in the beautiful city of Bath, he has spent most of his working life in the capital, in a variety of occupations. Phil’s diverse career has included time as a musician performing in the city’s clubs, pubs, and dives; a steel-fixer working on the towering edifices of the Square Mile; and a designer of stained-glass windows. For 35 years, he worked in Mayfair at the internationally renowned fine art auction house Sotheby’s, where he oversaw electronic security for some of the world’s most valuable works of art.

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Average rating: 4.28 · 180 ratings · 52 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Midnight Streets 4.15 avg rating — 88 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mask of the Verdoy (George Harley Mystery #1) 4.38 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Banquet (Piccadilly Noir #2) 4.47 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guilty Secrets: From the Crime Writers Association by Martin Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Amphlett (Goodreads Author), Martine Bailey (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Phil Lecomber and 1 other person liked Graham Connors's review of Midnight Streets: "I loved this! George Harley is such a great character! Lecomber, whose work I was not familiar with at all, recreates 1920s London, bringing it to life in vivid detail, from the streets to the slang language. It's just fascinating. Would I recommend " Read more of this review »
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Phil Lecomber liked Elizabeth Sugden's review of The Devil's Banquet (Piccadilly Noir #2): "I really enjoyed this book! It’s just as well-written as Midnight Streets, and I liked that it has a self-contained narrative arc while also developing on the long-term storyline set up in the previous book. Set four years after Midnight Streets, The" Read more of this review »
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“to encourage the English proletariat to adopt the tenets of Bolshevism and rise up against their betters, of course.”
― Phil Lecomber, Mask of the Verdoy: A George Harley Mystery

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“The Lord Chancellor’s son? I mean, you’d think they’d be … well, I don’t know … doing something worthwhile.’ Harley laughed. ‘I think he’s supposed to be an ancient Greek actually, Pearson. I dunno, I suppose they all feel a bit lost, don’t they.”
― Phil Lecomber, Mask of the Verdoy: A George Harley Mystery

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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work”; but essentially it is the language of the dispossessed, the marginal.”
― Phil Lecomber, Mask of the Verdoy: A George Harley Mystery

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