num_pages: 48
description: The ultimate parody of the stage and literary convention of the country-house mystery. 'It's an object of pure, virtuoso craft and display, as luxuriously self-sufficient as a netsuke or Faberge Easter egg. But it's as nearly perfect in its kind as a P.G. Wodehouse plot; tiny, ludicrous and beautiful as an ivory Mickey Mouse...It's time we stopped dismissing comedy as an inferior genre.' Observer
language: English
title: The Real Inspector Hound
titlecomplete: The Real Inspector Hound
genres: 20th Century, British Literature, Classics, School, Drama, Plays, Fiction, Humor, Mystery, Theatre
ratings_count: 1964
publisher: Faber and Faber