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The Lively Dead

A Crime Novel

By: Peter Dickinson

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Paperback | 7 April 2015

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202 Pages

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In this mystery from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a landlady discovers a corpse beneath her crowded London boardinghouse

A sturdy young woman with a knack for home repair and a practical sense of Marxism, Lydia is renovating her London townhouse while her husband finishes law school. To bring in extra money, she rents her upper floors to the exiled government of Livonia, a Baltic state that was long ago absorbed into the Soviet Union.

One day, as Lydia is taking up the floorboards, the Livonians carry a coffin through the house. It bears their housekeeper, who is to be honored with vodka toasts and a solemn funeral. After the ceremony, Lydia returns to her floorboards. Beneath the rotted wood is dirt—and in the dirt, she discovers a corpse that never reached the graveyard.

Identifying the body and finding the person who stashed it there draws Lydia into a tangle of spies and counterspies as her quiet little boardinghouse becomes a new front in the global Cold War.

Industry Reviews

“There are few more ingenious writers of crime fiction than Peter Dickinson.” —London Evening Standard

“Peter Dickinson is a national treasure.” —The Independent

“The works of British Mystery Writer Peter Dickinson are like caviar—an acquired taste that can easily lead to addiction.” —Time

“International intrigue . . . A suspenseful novel and more.” —The New York Times

“First-rate Dickinson—it offers that rarest treat of all: a heroine of flesh and blood and brain enough to cope with life as well as crises.” —Judith Crist

“Gratifyingly brilliant . . . beautifully knotted together . . . consistently fascinating.” —Library Journal

“A genuine original.” —The Village Voice

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