Review date: 6/2/2001
Publisher: Methuen, 1984
Published: 1984
William Rushton embroils probably the most famous cricketer of all time in an outrageous and hilarious investigation into the death of Castor Vilbastard (pronounced Vilibart, as he and his twin brother Pollux insist), as he is about to bowl at Grace at Lord's. This investigation, which has its roots in a disastrous MCC tour of the US a few years earlier, leads Grace and co-investigators John Watson and A.J. Raffles to Paris and then to the moon, encountering such famous eal and fictional Victorians as Mrs Beeton, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Sarah Bernhardt and Oscar Wilde. Supremely silly, and consistently funny, W.G. Grace's Last Case is extremely enjoyable.
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