Business Unusual

Simon Bognor #10

by Tim Heald

While Simon Bognor of the Special Investigations Department of the Board of Trade is in Scarpington, someone dies in mid-joke at a banquet for the local Artisan's Lodge

183 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Tim Heald (b. 1944) is a journalist and author of mysteries. Born in Dorchester, England, he studied modern history at Oxford before becoming a reporter and columnist for the Sunday Times. He began writing novels in the early 1970s, starting with Unbecoming Habits (1973), which introduced Simon Bognor, a defiantly lazy investigator for the British Board of Trade. Heald followed Bognor through nine more novels, including Murder at Moose Jaw (1981) and Business Unusual (1989) before taking a two-decade break from the series, which returned in 2011 with Death in the Opening Chapter.