Business Unusual

Simon Bognor #10

by Tim Heald

The most hard-edged of the Bognors as Simon finds himself in the town of Scarpington, the acme of Mrs. Thatcher's provincial England. The usual suspects are all members of the local equivalent of the Rotary Club. There is another club with a disturbingly sexual theme and Simon's wife, Monica, becomes distinctly unamused.

"Crime with a P.G.Wodheouse flair - light-hearted but lethal". The Chicago Tribune

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Tim Heald (b. 1944) is a journalist and author of mysteries. Born in Dorchester, England, he studied modern history at Oxford before becoming a reporter and columnist for the Sunday Times. He began writing novels in the early 1970s, starting with Unbecoming Habits (1973), which introduced Simon Bognor, a defiantly lazy investigator for the British Board of Trade. Heald followed Bognor through nine more novels, including Murder at Moose Jaw (1981) and Business Unusual (1989) before taking a two-decade break from the series, which returned in 2011 with Death in the Opening Chapter.