![]() ![]() Dawkins has been campaigning for a spot in CID for some time, and Diamond has been fending him off, but now the sergeant has found a protector in the ACC, Georgina Dallymore, and Diamond finds his team lumbered with him. Dawkins' interviewing style is hilariously surreal and calculated to drive Diamond round the bend. It is also very funny, especially in scenes involving a new and unwelcome addition to Bath CID, Sergeant Horatio Dawkins, AKA Fred. ![]() It is not simply the plotting, good as it is, that distinguishes this book. In a brilliantly twisty plot, ingeniously clued but wholly fair, he does get to the bottom of both. ![]() Diamond has two mysteries to solve - who is behind the crimes and why is he afraid of theatres. And he has to keep going back, as further violence follows the assault on Clarion. He has a theatre phobia (there may be a Greek term for this, but I don't know it), so when he is called to investigate an attack on a visiting artist, the rock singer Clarion Calhoun who is playing Sally Bowles in I AM A CAMERA, it takes an enormous effort for him even to enter the venerable Royal. Two of its ghosts, the Grey Lady and The Painted Butterfly, make their appearance here, but it is not the supernatural that troubles Diamond. Bath's Theatre Royal is the venue for the action, a theatre that claims to be the most haunted in Britain. It has been twenty years since Peter Diamond made his first appearance (THE LAST DETECTIVE) and now he is back for the eleventh time. ![]()
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