Deadline - Simon Bognor, Bk 3 Author:Tim Heald Simon Bognor joins a Fleet Street gossip column after the editor is found dead at his desk. — For St. John Derby of the Daily Globe, the cheerful but nasty life of the successful gossip columnist is over forever -- thanks to the work of a well-directed paper knife. — Bumbling investigator Simon Bognor of the London Board of Trade stumbles... more » over highly intruiging clues -- sexual blackmail, international espionage, and high-finance finangling, to name but a few... not to mention several suspects, each with a motive.
Was it Molly Mortimer, the token woman writer with the powerful perfume, who admits having had an affair with St. John? Milbourne Port, the chubby degenerate in tweeds? The owner of the paper and the man who wanted St. John fired, Baron Wharfedale? If not, then who?
Bodies pile up as untidily as yesterday's newspapers. To save his life and crack the case, Simon will have to be very fleet indeed on Fleet Street.« less