Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the S..., Simon Brett
Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the S..., Simon Brett
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Blotto, Twinks and the Stars of the Silver Screen

Author: Simon Brett

Narrator: Simon Brett

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2018


Synopsis

Another hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo!

The end of the cricket season spells gloom for Blotto, until he is invited to bat against the Hollywood cricket team out in sunny LA, where rain never stops play. And so begins the latest adventure for Blotto and his supremely gifted sister Twinks. Although their mother, the Dowager Duchess of Tawcester, keeps a strict rein on her two children, she knows America is full of wealthy young men, all of whom will fall in love with her daughter - and marriage to a Texan millionaire would solve the Tawcester financial problems once and for all.

So, accompanied by trusty chauffeur Corky Froggett, the intrepid siblings head out to California. On arrival in Hollywood they are invited to a glitzy party where they are introduced to a firmament of Hollywood stars, directors and gossip columnists, but the mood of the party suddenly curdles with the breaking news that beautiful starlet Mimsy La Pim - the (former) love of Blotto's life - has been kidnapped. And Blotto is determined to make it his personal mission to rescue her.

But in the world of old-fashioned cricket matches, gigantic Hollywood egos, film-making disasters and merciless crooks, it soon falls to Twinks to rescue her brother from the various messes he creates when attempting to rescue his damsel in distress. Will the siblings ever get back to Tawcester Towers - or will it be a case of death before wicket?

About Simon Brett

SIMON BRETT is the author of over one hundred books, many of them crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter and Fethering series. Educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, Simon was chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1986 to 1987 and of the Society of Authors from 1995 to 1997. He was also President of the Detection Club and was awarded the 2014 CWA Diamond Dagger. In 2016 he was awarded an OBE for services to literature. He lives near Arundel in West Sussex and is married with three grown-up children and six grandchildren.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steven on July 19, 2022

Another hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo! The end of the cricket season spells gloom for Blotto, until he is invited to bat against the Hollywood cricket team out in sunny LA, where rain never stops play. And so begins the latest adventure for Blotto......more

Goodreads review by Marj on January 06, 2024

I've read several of the Blotto and Twinks books, and enjoyed them all. The main characters are exaggerations of stereotypes of the English aristocracy, and totally unbelievable. Twinks is described as brilliant intellectually, and breathtakingly beautiful. Blotto, her brother, is good at cricket,......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on December 24, 2017

This seventh Blotto and Twinks story is almost a pastiche of itself. In the light of Brexit and the Harvey Weinstein affair, their attitudes seem less lightheartedly funny.......more

Goodreads review by Andy on February 28, 2021

A spoffing great read.......more

Goodreads review by Rosemary on August 02, 2017

If you want and easy read that make you giggle then this book fills that gap. I love Simon Brett I have read nearly all his books and have yet to read a bad one.......more


Quotes

A hilarious and old-fashioned whodunit romp in the mold of P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie, with just a tiny dollop of John Buchan thrown in for good measure. Highly entertaining The New York Journal of Books

Simon Brett has a deft hand with parody, playfulness and punch lines Read Me Deadly

Simon Brett is one of British crime's most assured craftsmen, with idiosyncratic characters proving winning creations... A feast of red herrings, broadly drawn characters, and gentle thrills and spills litter the witty plot. Crime writing just like in the good old days, and perfect entertainment THE GUARDIAN on Simon Brett

Murder most enjoyable... An author who never takes himself that seriously, and for whom any fictional murder can frequently form part of the entertainment industry

A very traditional English mystery, the characters are as entertaining, charismatic and all out fantastic as they were in the first. Mystery readers will want the adventures of Blotto and Twinks to continue for a very long time to come Feathered Quill Book Reviews on Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess


Awards

  • Crimefest Last Laugh Award