Mr. Dixon Disappears
A Mobile Library Mystery
By Ian Sansom
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780060822538, 272pp.)
Publication Date: July 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook
Categories: Mystery & Detective - General
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Mr. Dixon a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians, has gone missing—along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash. Israel Armstrong, bighearted and overly inquisitive, should stick to delivering library books to out-of-the-way readers and not get involved in the investigation. But of course, he can't help himself—which costs him his job and earns him a place of dishonor among the police's prime suspects. Can Israel clear his name and get his van back? Will the exhibition of old local photos he's been driving around County Antrim offer clues to Mr. D.'s whereabouts? And is a romance in the offing with winsome barmaid Rosie Hart?
All will be revealed!
Ian Sansom is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He lives in Northern Ireland.
“[a] comic masterpiece”
-The Belfast Telegraph
“blissful British comedies for the intellectual escapist”
-London Times
“the great pleasure in this romp derives from Israel’s glum-in-his-Guinness rueful world view...”
-Washington Post
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