Paperback. Pub the Date: October 2008 in Publisher: Audiobooks A darkly comic tale about Mr Less-Than-the Average in. an average world. Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone's jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother. he has become resigned to the world in which he lives - the school bullies now pick on him in the workplace. women still spurn him and his arch enemy is now his supervisor. But then he arrives at work one morning to find the police on site. A co-worker has been utally murdered and her body abandoned in a ditch. And the overwhelming evidence points to Martin - especially when he can't or won't admit that he has an alibi. When a second victim is found in the company bathroom. things really conspire against Martin. The one ight star on his otherwise bleak horiz...