A Light-hearted Look at Murder

How legitimate is it to impersonate Adolf Hitler at an office Christmas party? It is a question that German student Andreas Honig is forced to confront when he falls into a job as a lookalike in order to pay his way through university in the UK. Before he knows it, Andreas has been swept into a crazy world where ordinary people make their living by pretending to be famous. And, despite his reservations, he is kept there by his adoration for Rose, booking agent supreme and possibly the tallest woman in England.As Rose struggles to make light of her ‘deformity’ and the Hitler act becomes dangerously successful, the cracks begin to show for all the members of the Beware Imitations Agency, with terrible consequences. This could be the end of the story were it not for the obsession, ten years later, of a young woman who wants to find out exactly why Andreas Honig is in prison. Mark Watson belongs to that school of comedy where laughter is always on the edge of turning sour. His clever spoof of the lookalike business has brilliantly larger-than-life characters and a wonderfully devious plot in which nothing is entirely as it seems.