Overview

When Roger Rorch, the talented chairman of the London-based advertising agency RTB, supposedly commits suicide, banker and detective Mark Treasure is certain that all is not as it seems. Treasure's search for foul play reveals a tangled web of deals and egos - Rorch was defying his partners by opposing a £2m takeover bid by a huge New York firm; RTB's most powerful client stands to lose a fortune if the sale goes ahead; and the head of the rival Fentley agency is also deeply involved, and not just because his wife has her own key to Rorch's riverside London penthouse... With his own bank interested in the fate of RTB, it's up to Treasure to follow the clues and overturn the coroner's verdict of accidental death - and to substitute one of murder. A classic 'ad-land' mystery, Advertise for Treasure is the seventh installment in David Williams' brilliantly witty Mark Treasure detective series and elicited comparisons to Dorothy L, Sayers' Murder Must Advertise when it was first published in 1984.

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Author:   David Williams
Publisher:   Pan Macmillan
Imprint:   Macmillan Bello
Edition:   On Demand
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9781509826285

ISBN 10:   1509826289
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   17 November 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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The strongest claim yet by David Williams to a respected place among serious writers of detective fiction Daily Telegraph Well informed [...] well contrived Glasgow Herald Good enough to evoke memories of Dorothy L. Sayers' classic Murder Must Advertise Kirkus Reviews

Good enough to evoke memories of Dorothy L. Sayers' classic Murder Must Advertise * Kirkus Reviews * Well informed [...] well contrived * Glasgow Herald * The strongest claim yet by David Williams to a respected place among serious writers of detective fiction * Daily Telegraph *

The strongest claim yet by David Williams to a respected place among serious writers of detective fiction * Daily Telegraph * Well informed [...] well contrived * Glasgow Herald * Good enough to evoke memories of Dorothy L. Sayers' classic Murder Must Advertise * Kirkus Reviews *

Author Information

Stuart David Williams was a writer best known for his crime series featuring the banker Mark Treasure and police inspector DI Parry. After serving as a Naval officer in the Second World War, Williams completed a History degree at St John's College, Oxford, before embarking on a career in advertising. He became a full-time fiction writer in 1978. Williams wrote twenty-three novels, seventeen of which were part of the Mark Treasure series of whodunits, which began with Unholy Writ (1976). His experience in both the Anglican Church and the advertising world informed and inspired his work throughout his career. Two of Williams' books were shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, and in 1988 he was elected to the Detection Club.

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