The Better Mousetrap by Tom Holt - ISBN: 9781841495040
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Love, death, and insurance: a magician tackles life’s greatest enigma.

The Better Mousetrap

J.W. Wells & Co. Book 5

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 2009

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Summary

It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together.

Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank Carpenter, one of the foremost magical practitioners of our age, felt himself irresistibly drawn to it. Until, that is, he met Jane, a high-flying corporate heroine with an annoying habit of fal…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781841495040
ISBN-10:1841495042
Author:Tom Holt
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Orbit
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:1 July 2009
Weight:264g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 26mm
Series:J.W. Wells & Co.
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Critics Review

Tom Holt’s comic fantasy is a great, uplifting read, fit to grace any reader’s book collection– Waterstone’?s Books Quarterly

Inventively entertaining …make you both laugh out loud and stop and think - SFX

Tom Holt’s comic fantasy is a great, uplifting read, fit to grace any reader’s book collection - Waterstone’s Books Quarterly

Highly amusing … Eloquently snarky prose - Publishers Weekly

Holt’s quirky characters and whimsical voice successfully infuse life into this entertaining romantic comedy - Publishers Weekly

About The Author

Tom Holt

Tom Holt is the author of more than twenty comic fantasy novels and a number of acclaimed historical novels.

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