Water of death
By: Paul Johnston.
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Dalrymple, Quintilian (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Fiction; Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Edinburgh, 2025: an almost crime-free oasis surrounded by anarchic city-states. But global warming has turned summer into the Big Heat, and water, like everything else, is strictly rationed. Citizens live only for the weekly lottery drawing. When a recent winner goes missing, however, subversive investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is called in to deal with a case of the summertime blues.

Then a body is discovered face down in the Water of Leith, and the only clue to the death is a bottle of contraband whisky. Quint thinks he sees traces of a conspiracy to destabilize the city, as the body count -- like the temperature -- keeps on rising.