Bring the Monkey

A spoof of the English country-house mystery/pot-boiler novel. The narrator (female) trails after her glamorous and beautiful friend Zarla, who is "a siren not a spectacle" and whose great talent is to listen to people. Zarla decides to get a monkey to make up for not being able to trek to the steppes of Asia or similar places. An unusual premise for a detective novel.A spoof of the English country-house mystery/pot-boiler novel. The narrator (female) trails after her glamorous and beautiful friend Zarla, who is "a siren not a spectacle" and whose great talent is to listen to people. Zarla decides to get a monkey to make up for not being able to trek to the steppes of Asia or similar places. An unusual premise for a detective novel.