From the bridge of HMS Gladiator
To protect the mural while it is being painted Uncle employs a watchman called Sleepy Sam
an African poet also employed to divert the passengers
Back in Rome police Lieutenant Allegra Damico has been called to the Parthenon where a second body has been found
because the Dark Man took his brother five years ago
Travels with my Aunt Michael Joseph From the bridge of HMSHenry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA