Poet in the Gutter Bodley Head and unflinchingly committed to the

and unflinchingly committed to the alliance of literature and life

his pockets weighed down with lead whilst the current of the river below slowly tightens the noose around his neck

an idealistic young doctor

is the silent Friday

following Roger to a masked ball (one with a most sinister purpose) will take Miss Temple very far from the respectable world she has always known

Poet in the Gutter Bodley Head and unflinchingly committed to theSam Turner has always had a romantic yearning to be Sam Spade. So he tells his men's group in York that he's a private eye it's better than admitting he's an unemployed alcoholic. But then one of his friends asks for help in tracking an erring wife. So suddenly Sam is a P. I. And the next thing he knows, he's on the track of a serial killer with the help of a street liver and an ex English teacher pensioner. . .