num_pages: 314
description: 'Scores of men and women died daily in London but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club in Soho he has every hope of an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more worldly ideas about her future: she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbie's miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancy's hopes rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the roguish Nosey Ruslin the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly - and for Nancy's dreams to be realised. When Chief Inspector Wake of Scotland Yard enters the scene he uncovers a tangled web of love affairs a cynical Soho underworld and a motive for murder.The good-natured vintage mystery novel is now republished for the first time since the 1930s with an introduction by the award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards the leading expert on inter-war detective fiction.
language: English
title: Murder in Piccadilly
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press