A Brand To Die For

WORKING IN ADVERTISING CAN BE MURDER - LITERALLY.

It's 1983. Margaret Thatcher has been waging war on the Argentinians in the Falkland Islands. The miners are about to wage war on Margaret Thatcher. And Angus Lovejoy, once sent down from Charterhouse for shagging the Chancellor's daughter in the cricket pavilion, has now landed a job as a copywriter at London adland's creative hot shop Gordon Deedes Rutter where he is teamed up with art director Brian Finkle whose neurotic Jewish parents are the bane of his life. The two are an unlikely duo, but their mischievous and sardonic take on the world makes them a brilliant creative team. Everything goes swimmingly until a bizarre and mysterious murder rocks the world of Gordon Deedes Rutter and ripples out into the national media.

While the dearth of evidence leaves the police baffled, Lovejoy and Finkle take it upon themselves to apply their creative brains to solve the mystery, and in so doing, inadvertently get themselves into particularly deep water.

"This comic murder mystery made me laugh out loud. The dialogue is wonderful."

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"I regard this as a comic masterpiece. Set in 1983, it paints a convincing picture of those times in an ad agency in Soho, where the 'creatives' are battling against the below-the-line and other branding marketeers. The dialogue fairly crackles with great jokes and wordplay. Roundabout half way through, and amidst all the fun, the main murder occurs. The resolution of the plot is very clever and the dialogue remains amusing right to the end. Humour is difficult to predict, but I reckon you'll love this!"

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