Sir Montgomery Entwistle-Blaine's The Beta Reader
by Steve RoganPublish: Jan 04, 2022Series: The Borty Bittles Thingo SeriesCrime Fiction Suspense HumorBook Overview
The fourth book in a trilogy that isn't.The Ostrich Feather Writers’ Club of London has got a bit of a problem. No, there’s plenty of red wine and English breakfast sausages on hand; but this is something equally devastating.
There’s been a few murders, you see. Murders of characters in thus far unpublished manuscripts that are throwing several top-quality, ‘Made in England’ spanners into the plots of these would-be novels, and giving these club-member authors some rather nasty headaches.
These murders are murders for which the authors of these manuscripts are not responsible.
Honeymooners, Borty and Wei Bittles have just popped over to London from Spain and, no sooner had they landed at Heathrow, wandered the ritzy areas of London, dined at some really posh joint Her Majesty used to like eating at, bought some lovely souvenirs, spent a day at Ascot, visited Abbey Road, toured the Tower of London and had wild, romping naughties between Baker Street sheets with an incredibly high thread count, Borty was urgently summoned to the writers’ club to meet these authors and get to the bottom of this business. Borty discovers a book in the club’s Really-Dusty-Old-Books-That-No-one-Ever-Looks-At Hall, entitled, What Comes Around, by an author he knows all too well, and this discovery prompts him to clasp his chin in thought and go, “Mmmm?”
Borty realises he now needs a second mind on the job, and places a call to Australia. When hitherto unidentified person arrives, Borty and the person standing at Borty’s door really start joining the dots; the picture this forms looks nothing like a happy duck on a pond!
