A conspiracy of friends

Description:

"It's back to Corduroy Mansions--the slightly dilapidated but well-lived-in mansion block in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood--for the third installment in Alexander McCall Smith's newest popular series. There's never a dull moment for the residents of Corduroy Mansions: Berthea Snark is still at work on her scathing biography of the only loathsome Liberal Democrat member of Parliament--her own son, Oedipus; literary agents Rupert Porter and Barbara Ragg are still battling each other for first crack at the manuscript of Autobiography of a Yeti; fine-arts graduate Caroline Jarvis is busy blurring the line between friendship and romance; and William French is still worrying that his son, Eddie, may never leave home, even though Eddie's got a new wealthy girlfriend. But uppermost on everyone's mind is Freddie de la Hay--William's faithful terrier (and without a doubt the only dog clever enough to have been recruited by MI6)--who has disappeared while on a mystery tour around the Suffolk countryside"--

subjects: Social life and customs,  FICTION / Urban Life,  Neighborhoods,  Terriers,  Fiction,  FICTION / Humorous,  City and town life,  FICTION / Literary,  Neighbors,  Humorous,  FICTION,  Literary,  Manners and customs,  Urban Life,  Fiction, humorous, general,  London (england), fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, humorous

Places: England,  London,  Pimlico (London, England)