| 词条 | Riotous Assembly |
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| name = Riotous Assembly | title_orig = | translator = | image = Riotous Assembly.jpg| caption = | author = Tom Sharpe | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Secker & Warburg | release_date = 1971 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = 204 | isbn = 0-330-23423-4 | preceded_by = - | followed_by = Indecent Exposure }} Riotous Assembly is the debut novel[1] of British comic writer Tom Sharpe, written[1] and originally published in 1971. Set in the fictitious South African town of Piemburg, Riotous Assembly lampoons South African apartheid,[1] and the police who enforced it. Plot summaryKommandant van Heerden, who has risen to Chief of Police of Piemburg through his family connection with a 'hero' of Boer republicanism rather than merit, is called out to deal with a strange murder case involving the eccentric British spinster, Miss Hazlestone. It appears that Miss Hazlestone has obliterated her black cook 'Sixpence' with a quadruple-barreled elephant gun. A paradoxical anglophile, van Heerden is initially willing to brush the incident under the carpet, until Miss Hazlestone reveals that she and the cook were former lovers who engaged in some extremely vivid fantasies. In his panic to stop the truth getting out, van Heerden resorts to placing Miss Hazlestone under house arrest, calling in all the reinforcements available to quarantine the area and placing his assistant, the profoundly stupid and bloodthirsty Konstabel Els, on guard, carrying the same elephant gun. The chaos that follows turns a potentially sensitive political scandal into a full-blown catastrophe, one that van Heerden, his deputy Lieutenant Verkamp and Els must resolve to uphold the honour of Piemburg and apartheid. References1. ^1 2 {{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22795507 | title=Tom Sharpe, Porterhouse Blue novelist, dies aged 85 | publisher=BBC News | accessdate=2013-06-06}} }}{{Tom Sharpe Navbox}}{{1970s-novel-stub}}{{Apartheid-sa-stub}} 4 : Novels by Tom Sharpe|Debut novels|Apartheid novels|Secker & Warburg books |
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