Bloodhounds Av Peter Lovesey

<p><b>The fourth uniquely stylish crime novel, from the award-winning Peter Diamond series.</b><br><br>''Darling, if ever I''ve met a group of potential murderers anywhere, it''s the Bloodhounds.'' Thus says one of the members of the Bloodhounds of Bath, a society that meets in a crypt to discuss crime novels. But to their latest recruit, they seem just a gaggle of dotty misfits, until one of them reveals that he is in possession of an immensely valuable stamp, recently stolen from the Postal Museum.<br><br>Then theft is overtaken by murder when the corpse of one of the Bloodhounds is found in a locked houseboat, with the only key in the possession of a man with a perfect alibi. Burly Peter Diamond finds himself embroiled in a mystery evoking the classic crime puzzles of John Dickson Carr.<br><br><b>Winner of the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger, the Barry Award and the Macavity Award.</b></p>