Thanks to the late Peter Tory's encouragement, who used almost 100 of my
limericks in his Diary columns in the Star and The Sunday Express in the
'80s and early '90s, I seem to be addicted to writing limericks. Or
trying to. As often as not for friends. I do think a book of them might
make good stocking fillers. Unlike Edward Lear's, the last line of my
limericks is NOT a repeat of the first line and the last line also
usually contains a (hopefully) funny pay off. What's more - my limericks
do usually scan! "As someone who specialises in mysteries of all kinds
and at all levels, it remains something of a mystery even to me how my
old friend Arnie Wilson manages to write such daft but undeniably
amusing limericks. In fact they're Dead Funny! (Regular readers of my
Roy Grace thrillers will get that pun-ishing joke.)" Peter James, author
of the Roy Grace thrillers