Death at the Dress Rehearsal

#1 Lowe & Le Breton

Stuart Douglas

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Titan Books
04 October 2024

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Lowe and Le Breton mysteries

In 1970, while on a location shoot in Shropshire for the downmarket BBC sitcom Floggit and Leggit, ageing actor Edward Lowe – a ‘short, stocky northerner with a receding hairline and bad eyesight’, who plays the pompous and officious lead, a role based on himself – stumbles across the body of a young woman, apparently the victim of a tragic drowning accident. But there's something about her death that rings the faintest of bells in his head and, convinced the woman has been murdered, he enlists the help of his laid-back, upper-class co-star John Le Breton, a man for whom raising a wry eyebrow is a bit too much of an effort, to investigate further.

Crossing the country and back again during gaps in filming, the two elderly thespians make use of their wildly contrasting personalities and skillsets to uncover both a series of murders in the modern day and links to another unfortunate death during World War II. But, as the body count mounts and a pattern to the killings begins to emerge, can Edward and John put their differences aside to save the innocent victims of a serial killer and still be ready for when the cameras start rolling?

Death at the Dress Rehearsal is the first in The Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries series.

By: Stuart Douglas
Imprint: Titan Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9781803368207
ISBN 10: 1803368209
Series: Lowe and Le Breton mysteries
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 04 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Stuart Douglas is an author and editor based in Edinburgh. He runs Obverse Books, and has written four Sherlock Holmes novels for Titan Books. In 2016, he co-created the award winning Black Archive series of books, and has also written and edited novellas and short story anthologies for several publishers.

Reviews for Death at the Dress Rehearsal (#1 Lowe & Le Breton)

Praise for Stuart Douglas: “Sherlockians are in for another treat” Booklist “An original plot and prose that convincingly emulates Conan Doyle's” Publishers Weekly “Douglas presents us with is that rarest of things: a completely original Holmes story, which remains true to the work of the original author.” We Are Cult