# The Riverside Villas Murder

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- Book: [The Riverside Villas Murder](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/the-riverside-villas-murder) ([The Riverside Villas Murder.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/the-riverside-villas-murder.md))
- Authors: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-956-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2012-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring.