Read this years ago; Hill got more experimental (not always successfully) as he got older.
This is a parody of a classical comedy; no murders, lots of marriages including a gay one between Wield and Digweed the bookseller, well not a formal marriage or partnership but they meet in this book and subsequently live together.
Cleverly plays against its own genre; you keep expecting a murder/dead body but there are none.
Would be a better book if he was a slightly better and more confident writer. But it is a clever concept and quite a good read.
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