The lively dead

By Peter Dickinson

Book Overview

In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouse A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394496809
• ISBN13: 9780394496801
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.

Customer Reviews

70s Peter Dickinson

I love Peter Dickinson novels. He writes extremely well, sort of extremely good in a very subtle way, & you keep wanting to read more of him. This is a really nice one about a semi-Marxist landlord/housewife/carpenter with a pre-school age child, and a Baltic government-in-exile renting out the top floor of her house. One of her other tenants keels over and dies, a hot dude comes to work for the government, everybody follows each other, & the main character and her husband (who is recovering from depression/a nervous breakdown) have lovely cozy moments. I wish I had a nice relationship like that with someone. By the way, there is another review of this book, by lazy reviewer, misfiled on the page for the book Walking Dead, also by Peter Dickinson.