This gives a lot more punch to Harold Wilson agonizing about devaluing the pound. And it makes for a cracking mystery - times of change seem to create motives galore!
Exchange controls are a plausible constraint in Destination Unknown, as well: the British agent abroad is hampered by them. In this book, too, the forces of order have to resort to imposture to investigate...
This is very good.
This gives a lot more punch to Harold Wilson agonizing about devaluing the pound. And it makes for a cracking mystery - times of change seem to create motives galore!
Thank you - a refreshing take!
Exchange controls are a plausible constraint in Destination Unknown, as well: the British agent abroad is hampered by them. In this book, too, the forces of order have to resort to imposture to investigate...
Lovely work, Niall. Although, as with all of Ed West’s articles, it leaves me thinking, (in Pte. Fraser’s voice,) “We’re doomed”.