Book review: Peter Stafford-Bow - Firing Blancs

Simon reviews the new novel from Peter Stafford Bow - Firing Blancs is the third in the Felix Hart series, following on from Brut Force and Corkscrew

You might think that wine and comedy make obvious bedfellows. But certainly in the case of wine writing, this is very rarely the case. A few valiant (or foolish?) souls have tried, but the results have mostly been risible rather than side-splitting. Thank goodness for Peter Stafford-Bow, who is currently the only author I know who's really made this com…