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A scream in Soho / John G. Brandon ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : The British Library, [2014]Description: 254 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780712357456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 23
Summary: "'For a scream in the early hours of the morning in Soho, even from a female throat, to stop dead in his tracks a hard-boiled constable, it had to be something entirely out of the ordinary.' Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodied knife is found, Detective Inspector MacCarthy is soon on the scene. He must move through the dark, seedy Soho underworld - peopled by Italian gangsters, cross-dressing German spies and glamorous Austrian aristocrats - as he attempts to unravel the connection between the mysterious Madame Rohner and the theft of secret anti-aircraft defence plans." - copac
List(s) this item appears in: British Library Crime Classics
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Loanable Book Library General Collection 823 SCR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000438845

Originally published in 1940.

"'For a scream in the early hours of the morning in Soho, even from a female throat, to stop dead in his tracks a hard-boiled constable, it had to be something entirely out of the ordinary.' Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodied knife is found, Detective Inspector MacCarthy is soon on the scene. He must move through the dark, seedy Soho underworld - peopled by Italian gangsters, cross-dressing German spies and glamorous Austrian aristocrats - as he attempts to unravel the connection between the mysterious Madame Rohner and the theft of secret anti-aircraft defence plans." - copac

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