The author of twenty-one crime and mystery novels for adults, Dickinson was the first to win the Gold Dagger Award of the Crime Writers’ Association for two books running: The Glass-Sided Ants Nest () and The Old English Peepshow (). Dickinson was shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children’s literature and was the first author to win it twice/5(19). The Glass-Sided Ants’ Nest (Skin Deep) The Green Gene The Last Houseparty The Lizard in the Cup The Old English Peep Show(A Pride of Heroes) The Poison Oracle The Sinful Stones (The Seals) The Weir: Poems by Peter Dickinson Time and the Clockmice, Etcetera Touch and Go Tulku. · Dickinson is a much underappreciated writer, something of an acquired taste, and always surprising in how different each book can be. James Pibble is a Scotland Yard inspector who is assigned the oddball cases. The murder in The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest () is typical of the strange crimes that have become his specialty. In a house where the last surviving members of a little known tribe from Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
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The Glass-Sided Ant's nest is a quirky murder mystery from by Peter Dickinson, featuring his regular police superintendent, Jimmy Pibble. It is a witty, off-beat offering, set in s London, featuring a tribe of New Guinea bushmen (the Kus) living in an old home (Flagg Terrace), sponsored by a white woman who is considered by the tribe to be a man, living in a homosexual relationship with a black man. The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest was Dickinson's first adult novel, and it won the Gold Dagger award for The second book in the Jimmy Pibble series (A Pride of Heroes in the UK, The Old English Peep Show in the US), published the next year, also won the Gold Dagger award. The author of twenty-one crime and mystery novels for adults, Dickinson was the first to win the Gold Dagger Award of the Crime Writers’ Association for two books running: The Glass-Sided Ants Nest () and The Old English Peepshow (). Dickinson was shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children’s literature and was the first author to win it twice.
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