# Water of Death

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- Authors: [Paul Johnston](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-johnston)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1999-11-18

## Description

Edinburgh, 2025 - sweat city. Global warming has led to strict water rationing. The ruling Council of City Guardians has been forced to become more user-friendly - so citizens now live for the weekly lottery draw. Then people start dying after drinking poisoned whisky, and subversive, blues-haunted investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is thrown into a nightmare case which threatens the Council's very existence. For Quint, distinguishing friend from foe soon becomes a question of life or death. And the body count, like the temperature, keeps on rising...

## Editions

### Water of Death

- Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-03-4071-704-2
- Published: 1999-11-18
- Language: en_GB