Michael Innes: The New Sonia Wayward (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Colonel Ffolliot Petticate's predicament begins when his novelist wife, Sonia, drowns during a sailing trip in the English Channel. A dramatic cover-up ensues in a tale full of humour, irony and devastating suspense.

"A gem. How rare an item this is. A polished, urbane, and funny thriller. Wonderfully written. On no account to be missed..." (Evening Standard)

Michael Innes: The New Sonia Wayward. House of Stratus, ISBN: 184232747X (July, 2002), 190 p., $12.95.

Michael Innes: The New Sonia Wayward (UK 1964)

From the Publisher:
Colonel Ffolliot Petticate's predicament begins in the first glorious paragraph, and then knots and tangles itself up with humour, irony, and devastating suspense right up to the comically shocking finality of the end. Michael Innes surpasses himself in this novel with the subtlety and wit of the characterization - ranging from the savagely incisive to the delicately affectionate.

'A gem. How rare an item this is. A polished, urbane, and funny thriller. Wonderfully written. On no account to be missed' - Evening Standard

'Has everything. From the stunning opening paragraph it presents a plot packed with wit, irony, and varied characterization. The constant succession of new twists and turns, causing something to be happening on each page, never fails to amaze. It is an intriguing book and definitely the author's best' - Manchester Evening News

Michael Innes: The New Sonia Wayward. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1964, 173 p., 3'6.