This is a nice gentle story set in 1950s London. We join the characters Oliver Quest and Flora
after first meeting them in the Hearts and Arrows anthology. Oliver is an ex-policeman and Flora was a spy
in France during the war. They then got together
to search for missing works of art.
This story, however, starts with them having a tiff /
misunderstanding and both starting their own quests and jobs which invariably
merge.
The setting being 1951 certainly adds to the tone of the
book. Characters are always having to go
and find a phone box – even for emergency and urgent calls. Or catch a bus to get where they need to be.
Even though there is
crime, murder, gangs and beatings, it is all done in a gentle manner.
This is certainly a very readable and enjoyable book and
even though you want to give Flora a clip round the ear and tell her to listen
to Oliver, the characters soon feel like old friends.
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