Rum Affair

by Dorothy Dunnett

Book Overview

Tina Rossi, the world's leading coloratura soprano, has travelled to Edinburgh, ostensibly to sing in the Festival, but in reality to meet her lover, top scientist Kenneth Holmes. Instead of finding Kenneth at their rendezvous, she discovers an unknown corpse.

At this moment Johnson Johnson, a famous but enigmatic portrait painter turns up. Dolly is about to sail in a race to the Hebrides where Holmes was conducting his top-secret...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788424115
• ISBN13: 9781788424110
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Duckworth Books Ltd
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Quite Different from Starry Bird!

This book was quite different from Starry Bird, but I still enjoyed it. This was the introductory book for Johnson Johnson, and it's easy to tell as he's not as finely developed as he gets in future installments. The novel is still fast-paced, and funny in its own way. The singing bird of the title is Tina Rossi, a world famous coloratura soprano. The story is built around her illicit relationship with an English scientist. There sre plenty of twists and turns in the plot, and the story does not end at all the way I expected. Still a pretty good 70's thriller.