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The second novel in the Piccadilly Noir series, this dark historical thriller sees Cockney private eye George Harley return to the streets of London's Soho, populated by gangsters, wide-boys and lowlifes, to investigate a missing cabaret dancer. For fans of Dominic Nolan and Laura Shepherd Robinson. It is 1933, four years after Cockney private eye George Harley brought the infamous child-killer the 'Nursery Butcher' to justice, and he's back in business operating a new detective agency in Soho. For their first case, Harley and his new assistant Bunty are engaged to find a young girl who has run away from home to join a cabaret troupe led by the notorious 'Queen of Depravity' Ilse Blau. But in Harley's liminal world, things are never straightforward, and the detective soon finds himself embroiled in another pitch-dark scenario, with London's decadent, thrill-seeking gentry on one side and West End mobsters and wide-boys in search of easy cash on the other. Returning to London's frowzy alleyways and sleazy nightclubs, Harley will hunt down answers - no matter how uncomfortable they might turn out to be. But when he becomes ensnared in the mind games of a wily femme fatale, and finds himself up against ruthless Glaswegian gangsters, well-connected occultists, and undercover SS agents, those answers become increasingly hard to find.
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Phil Lecomber was born in 1965 in Slade Green, on the outskirts of south-east London. He has been married to his wife, Susie, for thirty-six years, and they have two adult children. Now living in Bath, he spent most of his working life in the capital. His career has included work as a musician in the city's clubs and pubs, a steel-fixer on the towering edifices of the Square Mile, and a designer of stained-glass windows. For thirty-five years he worked in Mayfair at the internationally renowned auction house Sotheby's, overseeing electronic security for some of the world's most valuable works of art.
