This was delightful and I am delighted to know that there’s plenty more where it came from.
Different author, different century, but you might also be amused by All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre. (A really good contemporary Scottish crime/thriller author, with a couple of spin-off SF novels, his backlist is only recently showing up in the US kindle store.) This one may actually be his Mrs Pollifax tribute novel, if Mrs Pollifax was a modern Glaswegian granny who got mixed up with freelance spies and creepy international arms dealers because of a taxi pick-up gone wrong; luckily it's a stand-alone, so you might be able to stop after just one ...
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Date: 2018-08-12 01:33 pm (UTC)Different author, different century, but you might also be amused by All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre. (A really good contemporary Scottish crime/thriller author, with a couple of spin-off SF novels, his backlist is only recently showing up in the US kindle store.) This one may actually be his Mrs Pollifax tribute novel, if Mrs Pollifax was a modern Glaswegian granny who got mixed up with freelance spies and creepy international arms dealers because of a taxi pick-up gone wrong; luckily it's a stand-alone, so you might be able to stop after just one ...