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Past Mortem

Past Mortem

by Ben Elton

2004MurderPoliceClass reunionsFictionInvestigation
3.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question mild-mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself when, in romantic desperation, he logs on to the Friends Reunited website in search of the girlfriends of his youth.

Themes & subjects

MurderPoliceClass reunionsFictionInvestigationDating (Social customs)
First published 2004

About the author

Ben Elton
Ben Elton

1959

Author

Ben Elton

First published

2004

Pages

440

Read time

≈ 11h

Editions

9

Language

English

Publisher

Windsor

ISBN

9781405610964

Where to buy

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