About this title: London in the late 1950s. The East End is ripe for redevelopment; the property sharks are buying up the bombsites and Victorian terraces; corruption is rife; Macmillan is PM of a shaky Tory government; Gaitskell expects to succeed as the first Labour PM for almost a decade to the delight of Troy's brothers, one an MP, the other a Fleet Street editor. Troy's last big case was to protect the Russian leaders, Bulganin and Khrushchev, on their first visit to Britain in 1956. Now a series of increasingly sadistic murders occurs on his old East End patch; a wartime girlfriend, who became a GI bride ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753818947ISBN:0753818949
Description: The long-awaited return of Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy against the backdrop of London's East End increasingly dominated by the new post-war gangs of the late 1950s. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753818947ISBN:0753818949
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"Another outstanding book in the Inspector
Troy series bringing the cast of characters
up to 1959.
Lawton fans should be aware that some of
his books, though the content is the same,
have different titles. For instance:
Blue Rondo / Flesh Wounds and
Riptide/Bluffing Mr. Churchill.
Still worth reading again and again."
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