Title: Water of death s cool
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, Quintilian Dalrymple (Fictitious character), Murder, Lottery winners, Self-determination, National, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction
Places: Scotland, Edinburgh, Edinburgh (Scotland)
LC classification: PR6060.O417 W38 2001