"Sometimes you know immediately that a book is going to get under your skin and stay there. I felt that way only a few pages into Spencer's tart debut"
--Sarah Weinman, New York Times

"Cosy crime fiction does not come much cleverer or more angry than Tom Spencer's first novel... Neatly plotted [and] funny" -- Literary Review

"Raises a gin to the golden age of classic mysteries. A cosy caper with a waspish sting" -- The Sun

"Christie fans'll love meeting Agatha Dorn, in a crime yarn as cool, crisp, and heady as the gin cantankerous library archivist Agatha loves" -- Peterborough Telegraph

"Witty and unique" -- Woman's Own

"Written with charm and wit, not to mention a distinctly barbed turn of phrase, it is a delight from first page to last" -- Irish Daily Mail

"A thoroughly enjoyable tribute to crime fiction's golden age" -- Mail on Sunday

"This fast-paced mystery is lightened by an irresistible dry humour" -- Daily Mail

"Tom Spencer's hilarious mystery about a contrary, gin-soaked, slightly oblivious archivist at a private library whose discovery of a lost work by a Golden Age author blows up in her face is a real find...Agatha is like a P. G. Wodehouse character dipped in acid, a confirmed misanthrope who can't get out of her own way. I hope Spencer will revisit her soonest."
--Airmail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Spencer is an expat Londoner currently living and working in Montgomery, Alabama. He has published creative work in various journals, including a story nominated for a Pushcart Prize and another shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Prize. Under his real name, Tom Perrin, he has published an academic book on twentieth-century fiction, as well as having written for the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere.