A dead man in Istanbul
By: Michael Pearce
Publisher: Soho Constable
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781569476093
Subjects: Fiction; Officials and employees; British Diplomatic and consular service; Social conditions; Employees; Great Britain. Foreign Office; Great Britain
Description: The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died in decidedly strange circumstances while attempting to swim the Dardanelles Straits, the passage between Europe and Asia, heavily used by warships, liners, tankers, and cargo vessels of all kinds. A romantic attempt to repeat the legendary feat of Leander, as the Embassy claims? Or an attempt to spy out a possible landing place for a British military expedition, as the Turks insist? Whichever, Cunningham has ended up with a bullet in his head. The suspicious circumstances of his death have to be investigated so the Foreign Office sends out an officer of the Special Branch: Seymour.