On My Bookshelf

Reviews

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Speculative
  • Historical
    • History Non Fiction
    • Historical Fiction
    • Saxon
    • Tudor
    • Detectives
  • Nordic Noir
  • Sleuths
    • British Sleuths
    • Historical Sleuths
    • Roman Sleuths
    • Scandi-Sleuths
  • Non Fiction
    • Mythology
    • Autobiography
    • Popular Culture
  • All Books
You are here: Home / Library / A Dead Man in Athens

A Dead Man in Athens

By Michael Pearce

A Dead Man in Athens

The marvelous Sandor Seymour, multilingual Scotland Yard detective, has another delicate case to crack. A death in Athens.

And not just any death. The overweight coddled cat, companion to the exiled Sultan of Turkey, has been poisoned.

In 1912 Seymour is the only true member of Scotland Yard’s flying squad and the British Government’s man when precarious political situations call for delicate handling.

It all began, unpromisingly, with a cat
‘A cat?’ said Seymour disbelievingly
‘That’s right’
‘Surely I’ve not been sent out from London to investigate -‘
‘It was a very nice cat’, said the Second Secretary, mollifyingly, ‘one of those blue-eyed ones. Angora, I think you call them.’
‘Yes, well, maybe, but -‘
‘The Sultan was very fond of it’

A Dead Man in Athens is a delightful book, and reminds me somehow of old English films starring James Robertson Justice and Terry Thomas. Recommended for light reading and guaranteed to make you smile.

My Amazon link : A Dead Man in Athens

Rating:

Series: Seymour of the Yard Tagged with: British Sleuths, Detectives, Historical Sleuths, Humour, Sleuths

About Susanna

Get in touch

Subscribe to 'On My Bookshelf' by Email

Copyright © 2021 · Author Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in