A dead man in Athens
By: Michael Pearce
Publisher: Soho Constable
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781569476109
Subjects: British Diplomatic and consular service; Fiction; History
Description: Athens, 1912, and the country is on the brink of war. The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overtures, has a dream-- which he refers to as his 'Great Idea'. The idea is to form a new nation, uniting all the Greek people scattered around the Mediterranean. Not such a great idea in the view of other countries, among them Britain, who believes in letting sleeping dogs lie. Something has to be done. Fast. And please, urge the diplomats--low key. The lowest key of all is to send out a police officer from Scotland Yard to investigate, and, as it happens, the Foreign Office has just the person in mind: Seymour, of the CID, who has had some experience of this sort of thing before.