After three tall tales spun by JJ one becomes accustomed to his incremental "what happens next" approach to storytelling and inured to the whopping improbability he is inclined to drop in close to the end. In this instance it was the incursion of seven-foot painted Maoris. The next book is set in...
Thursday, 1pm. By the time Dee and I arrived at Scotland Yard with Inspector Boniface, Lord Hickstead had been there for over an hour. So far he had been seen by a police doctor, who could find no injuries whatsoever, and he had been asked to identify the alleged mugger, which he could not do as ...
Wednesday, 5pm. The remnants of their room service meal stood under giant chromium domes on a hotel trolley waiting to be collected, so when the door bell rang Dee presumed it was room service coming to collect the food from the pricey art deco suite. “Who is it?” she asked. “It is Dominic, Ma’am...
Obviously in any work of fiction it is necessary to have fictional locations but where this has been done the fictional locations are situated on real streets or in real areas of London and elsewhere. Where fictional businesses are mentioned they are sited in real buildings. &nb...