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.
Publisher: British Library PublishingISBN: 9780712357456Number of pages: 256Weight: 340 gDimensions: 190 x 132 x 20 mm
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