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Patti Smith to write detective novel
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 28 January 2011
Having published various volumes of her poetry, art, lyrics and an autobiography, Patti Smith has revealed that her next book will be a detective novel set in London and inspired by Sherlock Holmes and American crime writer Mickey Spillane. Speaking to the NME, Smith said that the book was 68% complete, explaining: “For the last two years … I’ve been working on a detective story that starts at St Giles-in-the-Fields in London”.
