Actually I'm a Corpse

1973\.

Hours after a mysterious phone call is made to the police, a train pulls into Sunderland station with a dead body on board.

Cause of death: strangulation.

Victim: unknown.

Witnesses: none.Undeterred by this baffling set of circumstances, newly promoted Police Sergeant Aline James vows to crack the case and prove her critics wrong! But when her famously ruthless investigation tactics yield no results, she is forced to seek help from unlikely allies: unassuming assassin John Brown and calamitous actor Tony Davies.

As the bodies pile up, can this unusual trio thwart a devilishly complex plot, before one of them, actually becomes a corpse?Well-known for his beloved books and television adaptations of The Horrible Histories, Terry Deary has always loved reading murder mysteries.

For his 350th book he finally decided to write his own titled Actually, I’m a Murderer.

He now follows up with the second title in the series Actually, I’m a Corpse.“Extraordinarily fun and oh-so-gripping” The i Paper“Smart, funny and deftly executed page turner” The Guardian