Mrs Maginnes is Dead

By: Maeve Sleibhin

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Detective James Valour has a problem. After spending fruitless months trying to find the culprits of a passport falsification ring, he has been put on the case of the mysterious death of Mrs Maginnes, who was thrown off a cliff near Edinburgh. His attempts to solve this crime quickly and get back to the forgery case are frustrated by the dead Mrs Maginnes’s rampaging goat, along with her decision to bequeath a million pounds worth of Byzantine gold coins to whoever finds them, turning the whole town into the site of a treasure hunt. The main suspects are the five sisters living next door, who protest their innocence, but are determined to find the gold themselves and flee the country. They will stop at nothing to do so, soliciting the help of a Gypsy clairvoyant, Mrs Maginness’s bewildered tenant, Marxist transvestites, and, of course, passport forgers. Inspired by The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, one particular, smelly goat, and the unfortunate climate of Edinburgh, a lovely city that did nothing to deserve it.