{"product_id":"holiday-for-murder","title":"Holiday for murder","description":"When Lord Furnival, a left-of-centre dilettante, tries to stage a musical version of the Oberammergau Passion Play in the High Peak of Derbyshire, he does not foresee what strife and tension he is setting in motion. Petty thefts, a peeping Tom, artistic jealousies, a vendetta against Mary Magdalene - the record of crime culminates in the murder of the hyped rock singer who is brought out of disgraced retirement to play the Christ part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKenworthy is called in as a private consultant to 'protect the interests of the management' and finds himself involved with a bewildering array of eccentrics: Jimmy Lindop, a sound technician with old scores to settle; Julian Harpur, a neurotic adolescent whose mother believes him a genius; Alfie Tandy, who has confessed to dozens of murders in his time, and who carries his worldly belongings about in an old banjo-case; Freddy Kershaw, a detective-constable who is suspended from duty for telling the truth; and Joan Culver, who is trying to straighten herself out about filial duty, sex and life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is knotty a puzzle as Kenworthy and his reader have ever squared up to, as the case-work takes us out of Derbyshire into the squalid history of The Stalagmites, a failed rock group of London's swinging years. On the way we take a Hiltonian look at more than one level of contemporary society.","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9781557735416-001","offer_id":43779366027325,"sku":"9781557735416-001","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/16917983482742.jpg?v=1791393520","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/holiday-for-murder","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}