What strange passions seethe beneath the prosperous surface of Flaxborough town Affable but diligent Detective Inspector Purbright is tasked with uncovering the darker underbelly of greed corruption and crime. A classic British series of police mysteries laced with wry humour. Watson has an unforgivably sharp eye for the ridiculous. New York Times Flaxborough is Colin Watsons quiet English town whose outward respectability masks a seething pottage of greed crime and vice ... Mr Watson wields a