Ben Schroeder: And Is There Honey Still for Tea? (Series #3) (Paperback)

from atticusfinch1048

And Is There Honey Still For Tea? An Acquired Taste Peter Murphy's Ben Schroeder series is back with And Is There Honey Still For Tea? a legal thriller set in what were worrying times during the Cold War. The title is also a clever take of a line in Rupert Brooke's poem The Old Vicarage, Grantche...

from jtck121166

There are three strands to the narrative: the courtroom drama of a libel action brought against a journalist who has exposed a 5th man (after Burgess, Maclean, Philby and Blunt); the alleged traitor's diary (presented to the reader in its own typeface: why?); a melodrama surrounding young lawyers...

from dally33

1965. The British Establishment is reeling after a series of defections and acts of treachery by high-ranking Intelligence Officers. When Francis Hollander, an American academic, accuses Sir James Digby QC, a Baronet and a leader of the Bar, of being a Soviet spy I was very apprehensive when i re...

from mexico24

This is a legal thriller set in the cold war-Sir James Digby QC is an establishment figure who employs Ben Shroeder to sue Hollander, an American journalist for libel Hollander has published a slanderous article accusing the QC of spying for the Russians He has to fight this to regain the good na...