Product Description

Dying to Tell is another classic Robert Goddard mystery, intricate, fascinating and deeply satisfying to the very last page.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37760 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Set in Glastonbury, Goddard's deliciously convoluted mystery Dying to Tell introduces us to Lance Bradley, leading an uneventful, indolent life in Somerset until he receives a plea for help from the sister of an old friend. The friend, Rupert Alder, has terminated the allowances to his feckless siblings, and Bradley agrees to track Rupert down to find the reason for his actions. But in London, Bradley finds that Alder has disappeared, and his employers (a prestigious shipping company) believe him to be the perpetrator of a major fraud. An American by the name of Townley has, it seems, hired a private eye to find Rupert, only to be neutralised by powerful interests. And there's the Japanese businessman who claims Rupert has stolen an important document... As Bradley gets closer to the centre of an arcane mystery, he finds that the year 1963 (in which Bradley was born) holds the key to a series of bizarre puzzles.

This is the kind of finely-tuned mystery that Goddard dispatches with total assurance: elegantly crafted, with a quirkily characterised anti-hero in the mystified Lance Bradley. Other novelists noted for their storytelling abilities may have fallen from public favour, but Robert Goddard remains one of the soundest and most compelling novelists the UK has produced--perhaps because all his abilities have gone into producing narratives of total authority and persuasiveness, rather than the creation of any public persona. We don't know who Goddard is, and we don't care: his name on a book is an ironclad guarantee of something the reader will find very hard to put down. --Barry Forshaw

Daily Mail
'Gripping…woven together with more twists than a country lane'

Sunday Telegraph
`Goddard is a master of the clever twist'

Customer Reviews

Dying to tell
If you can't sleep read Dying to Tell what a big Yawn! My First Robert Goddard Book , I will try another one of his books but Give me Peter Robinson any day.

exciting
This is an exciting read (not as good as painting the darkness)the characters are great especially the Alders but after reading a few of Goddards book i have realised that a few have the same big secret????
Very entertaining if not a bit far fetched.

A fine read
Great stuff here from Mr Goddard. A fast-moving plot, intrigue, suspense.

The main character, Lance, gets landed in some major trouble by friend Rupert, who has disappeard without a trace. As Lance gets drawn into the mysteries Rupert has left for him, he's taken from his quiet life in Somerset, to London, and on to Japan.

A good read, this book doesn't disappoint, right to the end.