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Death by Sheer Torture (1981) is a mystery novel by English writer Robert Barnard, the first of five novels, penned in the '80s, featuring his recurring detective character Perry Trethowan.

Synopsis

Police detective Perry Trethowan suffers a terminal embarrassment when his estranged, aristocratic father is found dead atop a Strappado-style torture device of his own design. Even more humiliating is the revelation that he was wearing spangled tights at the time, exacerbating Perry's fear that he'll be mocked about this case for the rest of his life. However, any hopes he may have had of fading into the background are halted when his superior's force him into leading the investigation, and he soon finds himself in search of a killer among the eccentric relatives he thought he'd left behind years ago…

Reception

The novel received mostly positive reviews from critics and also did very well sales-wise.

Another of the author's unfailingly entertaining forays into crime. One of the most inventive writers of detective fiction today. - Westlake

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