A MaggotIn his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.

and her adventures with the Various

Theo Griepenkerl is a modest academic with an Olympian ego

The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in a marvellous story which begins in a Rome riven by corruption

A story inspired by a press cutting describing how

" - Stephanie Garber

Death Comes to Pemberley and The Murder Room

A clinic on Pariss Avenue Foch designed to cater lavishly for multiple perversions

now scattered

Soon after arriving

Mayhem and adventure

a Monty Python of secret agents

complete with dancing and swing-boats and picnickers and a roller-skating rink