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Carson's Conspiracy

J. I. M. Stewart

2000170 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2000
first published
  • 1984Gollancz · 183 pages · ENGISBN 9780575034471
  • 1984Dodd, Mead · 183 pages · ENGISBN 9780396083955
  • 1985Chivers · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9780851193212
  • 1986Penguin Books · 183 pages · ENGISBN 9780140084443
  • 2010House of Stratus, Incorporated · 170 pages · ENGISBN 9780755117994
  • 2000House of Stratus · 174 pages · ENGISBN 9781842327265

Businessman Carl Carson decides to make a dash for South America to escape the economic slump, leaving his home and his barmy wife. But he has a problem - if his company were seen to be drawing in its horns, it wouldn't last a week. His solution is his wife's favourite delusion - an imaginary son, named Robin. Carson plans to stage a fictitious kidnapping - after all, what could be more natural than a father liquidating his assets to pay the ransom demand? Unfortunately, Carson has a rather astute neighbour - Sir John Appleby, ex-Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

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