Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect

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Following the riotous success of his first novel, author and amateur detective Ernest Cunningham has been invited to the prestigious Mystery Writers' Festival.

In homage to Agatha Christie, the country's finest crime writers will spend several days aboard The Ghan, travelling from Adelaide to Darwin on the world-famous train.

Ernest is hoping to find inspiration for his next novel.

But when the first body is discovered, Ernest must seek out a murderer instead.

His suspects are his fellow writers - all experts in their field.

But how do you find a killer, when all your suspects know how to get away with murder?

Brilliant, great fun. Takes the scenario of Murder on the Orient Express and plays it for laughs. A more accomplished performance [than] Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
The Times, Crime Book of the Month

Laugh-out loud, irreverent, madly ingenious, full of twists and an avalanche of red herrings and wonderful characters let loose in a setting obviously inspired by both Agatha Christie and, with a nod to John Dickson Carr and others, a locked train mystery to boot. Stevenson succeeds magnificently in bringing Golden Age tropes to glorious life but also shows a deep affection for the rules and traditions of the genre, and his unique blend of satire, thrills, and glittering characterisation rings all the bells and more. A sheer delight and if there is any justice, a most-deserving multi future award winner
Crime Time Book of the Month

About Benjamin Stevenson

Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and bestselling author. He has sold out shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

He is the author of several books, including the international bestsellers Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect. His books have been sold in twenty-nine territories around the world. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone will soon be adapted into a major HBO TV series.

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Imprint: Penguin
Published: 29/02/2024
ISBN: 9781405954815
Length: 384 pages
Price: £4.99

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Brilliant, great fun. Takes the scenario of Murder on the Orient Express and plays it for laughs. A more accomplished performance [than] Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Sparkling with wit and witticisms about the world of writers and writing, Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it. Leave it to Stevenson to make high-jinx and murder deviously good fun

Fun and diverting, with a plethora of red herrings

Clever, satisfying, impossible to put down and gloriously inventive. It's fantastic. Books like this are why we love reading

An outstanding and exceptional mystery from start to finish...everything fans would hope for

Tricksy riffs on Golden Age mysteries seem to be in vogue, but no one does them with such gleeful elan as Stevenson...Stevenson's background as a literary agent doubtless helped him fashion this **fiendishly plotted Murder On The Orient Express update**

This crackles on the page. Such an original voice

Benjamin Stevenson is rather like the illusionist Derren Brown, who deconstructs others’ magic tricks only to pull off brilliant ones of his own

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