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MURDER IN FOCUS by Dorothy Dunnett

MURDER IN FOCUS

A New Johnson Johnson Mystery

by Dorothy Dunnett

Pub Date: April 23rd, 1973
ISBN: 0395155940
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

The fourth effulgently silly and busy case for Johnson Johnson (British Intelligence) here joined by Ruth Russell, one of Miss Dunnett's Modesty Blaises, where after an episode in the toletta of a zoo the camera of Sir Charles is stolen. There are some deadly gas cylinders in red and blue balloons, a film hidden in a wristwatch, and some negatives in something called Poppy's Cuddle. Rome is in Ektachrome — never brighter, and you'll simply have to "adore" words like preggy and teeny and pouff which is not a word of dismissal. You can think up your own.