Puppet on a String

Cover of Puppet on a String by Patrick Drake, a young woman in a minidress on puppet strings

In an exclusive London girls’ school a pupil plunges to her death while others bunk off to chase men in Kensington nightclubs.

Deejay Simon Parish sets up a new magazine for swinging London and, with his new colleagues, hack Mike Dash and beautiful heiress Dorothy Baker, he decides to investigate.

In 1967 Patrick Drake, now utterly forgotten, was the hip new voice on the crime scene. He got an unprecidented huge advance from his original publishers and was photographed around swinging London with sports cars and dolly birds.

Magpie Crime are delighted to announce that we have secured the rights to republish the first book in the Simon Parish series for the first time in almost 60 years.

Stay tuned to learn more about this in the Listen with Other podcast.

A paperback will be available here soon.