A conspiracy of friends
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Series: A Corduroy Mansions novel
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780307907233
Subjects: Social life and customs; FICTION / Urban Life; Neighborhoods; Terriers; Fiction; FICTION / Humorous; City and town life; FICTION / Literary
Description: "It's back to Corduroy Mansions--the slightly dilapidated but well-lived-in mansion block in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood--for the third installment in Alexander McCall Smith's newest popular series.  There's never a dull moment for the residents of Corduroy Mansions: Berthea Snark is still at work on her scathing biography of the only loathsome Liberal Democrat member of Parliament--her own son, Oedipus; literary agents Rupert Porter and Barbara Ragg are still battling each other for first crack at the manuscript of Autobiography of a Yeti; fine-arts graduate Caroline Jarvis is busy blurring the line between friendship and romance; and William French is still worrying that his son, Eddie, may never leave home, even though Eddie's got a new wealthy girlfriend. But uppermost on everyone's mind is Freddie de la Hay--William's faithful terrier (and without a doubt the only dog clever enough to have been recruited by MI6)--who has disappeared while on a mystery tour around the Suffolk countryside"--
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, in 2010.