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Inspector Dreadlocks Holmes & Other Stories
John Agard
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
In the title story, Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and his sidekick Rudeyard Fly are sent for by the Criminal Investigation Department of Middleham-by-Sea - a little town known for tea shops, pet shops, and florists - in short, a rustic retreat for naughty weekends. Keen to kick-start their diversity policy, the Department sends for two Black cops who see this as a chance to prove their cross-cultural mettle and solve the brutal attack on Lord Montagu, a controversial political figure found unconscious with a courgette by his side.
In other stories, an Anansi spider stows away on the Windrush, Cod and Chips are usurped by Chicken Tikka Marsala, and a white landscape gardener who admires Capability Brown has a mixed-race child, Cosmopolitan Brown, who is dispossessed by voices from history, including that of Martin Luther King.
Surreal and playful, John Agard's stories reveal hidden truths that subtly change our view of who we are and where we come from.
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Guyanese writers, We Brits, Casas de las Americas Prize (Cuba), Dreadlocks Holmes, Anansi, Shoot Me With Flowers, John Agard, British Black Writers, Queens's Gold Medal for Poetry, Cholmondeley Award, The Great Tug-o-War, Birder Zone, British Empire, Financial Times, Laughter is an Egg, Windrush generation, Bloodaxe, Brer Rabbit