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"Dougal
... the first of the modern British detectives." Val
McDermid (in
her foreword to the Poisoned Pen edition of Caroline
Minuscule, 2001)
They
say you always remember the first time, the first one.
William Dougal
was the hero of my first novel. He was my first
character. At the time
I thought he had quite a lot in common with his creator. As
time went
by, however, Dougal became a multi-murderer and a louche
private
investigator of low moral fibre; and I like to think that any
resemblance has decreased to the point of invisibility.
"The
creepiest private eye in the business, William Dougal..."
Philip Oakes in the Literary Review
Hodder & Stoughton
are reissuing the first four Dougal novels
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