Suspicious Circumstances: An Album of Events and Oddities with Thoughts on the Word What

I had so much fun reading Suspicious Circumstances that it felt as good as getting high,
no drugs needed. The wit and wisdom of its vignettes—really prose poems laced with
laughter—dissect the customs and dispel the dreariness of ordinary life. They are a
much-needed provocation, like Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen turned inside out.

-- Jan Herman, Author of A Talent for Trouble: The Life of Hollywood’s Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler (1997)

It may well turn out that A. Robert Lee is the bastard offspring of Mark Twain and
Spike Milligan. In Suspicious Circumstances, Lee riffs, muses and philosophises on the
quirks of life in a series of lively, intimate and witty vignettes. This is a must for lovers
of literature, travel, technology, vultures and the word “what.”

-- Douglas Field, University of Manchester

Sometimes laugh-out-loud amusing, often subtly wise, always entertaining. Suspicious
Circumstances: An Album of Events and Oddities with Thoughts on the Word What is a
treasure-house of reminiscences and wandering imagination. Episodes from a varied life
-- academic, traveller, observer -- are recalled in his own distinctive, eclectic style, with
his love of the different meanings of words and concepts evoking unexpected images in
the mind of the reader. Read this book to be transported to new ways of thinking about
frequently-used phrases and the world around us.

-- Irene Mansfield, Lawyer, Human rights acti