# The Hippopotamus

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- Book: [The Hippopotamus](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-fry/the-hippopotamus) ([The Hippopotamus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-fry/the-hippopotamus.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Fry](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-fry)
- Publisher: soho_press
- ISBN: 978-16-1695-473-4
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2014-12-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Stephen Fry's charmingly misanthropic send-up of the English mystery features an unlikely but necessary hero: Ted Wallace, AKA the Hippopotamus, a failed and disolute poet,...