Author: Marius Brill
Title: Making Love a Conspiracy of the Heart
Description: London, Doubleday, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this comic murder mystery novel by Marius Brill. Signed by the author to the title page. 'When Miranda, the Miss Lonely Hearts of Shepherd"s Bush, suddenly finds herself romanced by a tall, dark and deadly spy, she finds her life turned upside down. Could it have anything to do with the book she innocently took from the library, a book with a conspiracy theory about "love" so devastating that every other copy has been destroyed by MI5 and the writer "disappeared"? Spliced through Miranda"s romantic adventure are pages from the "lost" book itself. But the loudest voice in this piece of postmodern madness belongs to the lovelorn book itself, a sentient mass of paper and ink that cannot help falling in love with its reader. Marius Brill"s send-up of po-faced conspiracy stories, spy thrillers and pulp romance is as sharp as Tom Sharpe - imagine Umberto Ecco with a sense of humour. Ludicrously logical and finely spun, this is hare-brained literary fantasy, an erudite romp, and above all, a novel to fall in love with ÂÂ-' In a red cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, in lovely condition. Dustwrapper is smart also. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Library stamp as part of cover design and not a fault. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Comedy Mystery Novel Marius Brill Mystery None


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