British Library Crime Classics: A Scream in Soho (Paperback)

from Liz1564

This book was sent to me by Poisoned Pen Press via NetGalley. Thank you. The British Library Crime Classics is a wonderful series which reprints novels from the Golden Age of detective fiction. Most of the authors are long out of print now, even though in their heyday many of them were considered...

from NewsieQ

Scotland Yard Inspector Patrick Aloysius McCarthy has a murder on his hands. Then he has two. Then he has three - all in one night. McCarthy has a few hunches, but no evidence. And nothing, it seems, is what it appears to be. With an already full plate, McCarthy's boss piles on one more case: sto...

from antiquary

This story is set chiefly in the Soho area (somewhat more raffish then than now) in the early days of World War 2. The lead detective (Inspector McCarthy) is the son of an Irish father and an Italian mother, born in this ethnically mixed area. He talks a thick Irish brogue which is a bit hard to ...