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|author=Jakob Wegelius and Peter Graves (translator)
|title=The Murderer's Ape
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sally Jones is in clover as a mechanic on a cargo ship – when, that is, there is cargo to actually ship. Having needed emergency repairs, the two-strong crew of her and the Chief are idling in Lisbon, and are given a mysterious and mysteriously overpaid job – a job that shouldn't go wrong, but does. Unfortunately for the Chief, taking even the first step at writing the wrong sees him arrested for murder. Sally Jones is forced into hiding, which she manages to do with a lovely, kind woman with a hidden talent for singing, and her landlord, who makes and repairs accordions and other musical instruments. Life with them seems to be a new form of clover, then, but hints of that past nastiness keep coming back to haunt Sally Jones, especially when there's a suggestion that the alleged murder victim might still be alive…
Oh, and did I say that Sally Jones is actually a gorilla?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691618</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= David Bergen
|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time to provide a full answer, and this slim but useful volume does so very well.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>
}}