Stratton's war
By: Laura Wilson
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780752884585
Subjects: Fiction; Officials and employees; Police; Motion picture actors and actresses; Crimes against; Gangsters; World War, 1939-1945; Employees; Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Department; Great Britain; Great Britain. MI5
Description: DI Stratton series ;

The start of a brilliant new series of crime novels featuring DI Ted Stratton of the CID, set in central London during World War Two and its aftermath. London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings in Fitzrovia, the coroner rules her death as suicide, but DI Ted Stratton of the CID is not convinced. Despite opposition from his superiors, he starts asking questions, and it becomes clear that Morgan's fatal fall from a high window may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters. MI5 agent Diana Calthrop, working with senior official Sir Neville Apse, is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is involved in espionage. She must tread carefully - Apse is a powerful man, and she can't risk threatening the reputation of the Secret Service. Only when Stratton's path crosses Diana's do they start to uncover the truth. But as they discover Morgan's connection with Apse and their mutual links to a criminal network and a secretive pro-fascist organisation, they begin to realise that the intrigues of the Secret Service are alarmingly similar to the machinations of war-torn London's underworld.
Notes: Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.