Death of a Unicorn, A Novel of Suspense by Peter Dickinson, Now at a Special Price

MystereBooks is pleased to feature Death of a Unicorn by Peter Dickinson, now available at a special price, courtesy of the publisher, Small Beer Press.

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Death of a Unicorn by Peter Dickinson
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Small Beer Press

Mabs Millett is the reluctant heiress to Cheadle Abbey, one of Vanbrugh's monstrous piles. At a deb dance in the early 1950s she meets a financier who offers her a job as an assistant to the editor of the social diary on a magazine he has just bought, a cross between Punch and The Tatler.

She writes an account of a deb dance from the viewpoint of a feather-headed deb, which becomes a weekly feature in the magazine, and eventually a best-selling book, anticipating the U and non-U furor of a few years later.

Meanwhile she has become the financier's mistress, deeply in love with him and with her work. After ten months of happiness her world falls apart with his gunning down in a street in Buenos Aires. Thirty years later she is a hugely successful romantic novelist, exploiting her fan-base to attract tourists to Cheadle. An old colleague from the magazine asks to see her. Details emerge that cast fresh light on her lover's mysterious death, and eventually reshape her world.

This novel was first published in 1984 by Random House.

      

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