Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and other stories byvJohn Agard

By Emma Fitzgerald -
Thank you @randomTTours and @JohnAgard for letting me part of this tour, receiving the book-and reviewing the book. Inspector Dreadlocks holmes and other stories was very intresting read. The stories where entertaining and kept me engaged to the end. If you like crime stories you will enjoy this book. The font was the right size for me. The chapters where short but gripping. 4 stars I have not read any books by John Agard before but i will read more in the future. Description: In the title story, Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and his sidekick Rudeyard Fly arrive in Middleham-by-Sea, a little town known for tea shops, pet shops, and florists – in short, a rustic retreat for naughty weekends. Keen to kick start their diversity policy, the two Black cops have been sent for by Middleham’s Criminal Investigation Department. Seeing this as a chance to prove their cross-cultural mettle, Holmes and Fly set out to solve the brutal attack on Lord Montagu, a controversial political figure found unconscious with a cucumber by his side... In other stories, an Anansi spider stows away on the Windrush; Cod and Chips are usurped by Chicken Tikka Masala; and a white landscape gardener has a mixed-race child, Cosmopolitan Brown (named after Capability Brown), who is possessed by voices from history, including that of Martin Luther King. John Agard’s stories reveal hidden truths that subtly change our view of who we are and where we come from. Author Biography: Poet, performer, anthologist and prose writer, John Agard was born in Guyana in 1949 and came to Britain with his partner Grace Nichols in 1977; they live in Lewes, Sussex. His collections of poetry include Man to Pan, I Din do Nuttin’, Mangoes and Bullets, We Brits, and Travel Light Travel Dark. John Agard’s awards include the Casas de las Americas Prize (Cuba), the 1997 Paul Hamlyn Award for Poetry, and the Queens’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2012. Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and other stories is his first collection of fiction for adults.

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