Gavin Scott

It is the winter of 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior ancient history fellow....

Duncan Forrester has travelled to Greece, intent on recovering the ancient Cretan stone he discovered during the war while part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander. But during a visit to Athens, he witnesses the poisoning of a Greek poet who may have not been the intended target....

The third Duncan Forrester mystery adventure, set in 1947, features Ernest Bevin, the creation of Israel, and a Sumerian demon - plus a luxurious voyage on the Queen Mary to New York and Forrester's best chance of romantic happiness for years....

An extraordinary tale of pre-Victorian England, telling the story of the determined young farm boy from Kent who saved Charles Dickens from becoming a factory worker, operated the notorious chess-playing mechanical Turk, took on the London underworld....