Corpsing

by Toby Litt

Everything Toby Litt touches turns to gold. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140285776
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Penguin
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Mystery That Delivers The Goods

"Corpsing" is EXACTLY what one wants in a page-turning murder mystery. A tormented, interesting and vaguely annoying protagonist, enough suspects to keep the mystery going, and a really worthwhile twisty ending. Quite often, when I'm reading a murder mystery I start to get bored at some point and am SORELY TEMPTED to jump ahead and read the ending, just to see if it's worth the read - sadly to say, I actually do this about 65% of the time. With "Corpsing", I was so engrossed in what was going on, I stuck it out all the way to the end! Cheating didn't even cross my mind. I will say that Conrad can be a pretty annoying character - he's obsessed to the point of mistreating everyone around him, so don't expect some sort of noble or sympathy-engendering character. I thought he was fun and always did the unexpected. Definite thumbs up on this one.

Rotten Dinner

Conrad Redman gets a call from his ex-girlfriend Lily Irish. On very short notice she wants to meet him at the ?Le Corbusier? restaurant. He can not resist and there the two of them sit, having supper. Enters a strange figure in the disguise of a bycicle messenger, pulls out a gun, kills Lily and sends Conrad to the hospital for six months. They catch the killer, but he will not talk. Conrad wants to find out who gave the orders for the shooting spree. Lily?s parents - Josephine and Robert ?The Mistake? - are of little help. Anne Marie, Conrad?s new girl friend, energetically marches along, but he soon tires of her.While it is a fun story, the ending is less than satisfying. Some of the red herrings tend to be barracudas.