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Old 09-10-2016, 11:04 PM   #1155
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A Dead Man in Athens is the third title in Michael Pearce's Sandor Pelczynski Seymour series. Pearce is my second/third favorite mystery author (after Sarah Caudwell, tied with David Wishart). An alternate version of Athens, pub by Hachette rather than Penguin, has showed up at Amazon US, priced at $1.99, and a bunch of others in the series are listed as coming soon at $5.99. $5.99 is still a bunch more than I like to pay for backlist titles, but it's way better than the $9-ish or $10-ish of the Penguin versions, and Pearce IS one of my top three authors, so I may be tempted at some point in the future. In any case, Athens is $1.99 and I'm grabbing it!

link: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Man-Athe.../dp/B019NFEMK6

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Athens, 1913, the capital of a country on the brink of war. The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overlords, has what he calls the Great Idea - a vision of a new Greece that unites all the Greek people scattered around the Mediterranean. Not such a great idea, in the view of other countries, among them Britain, which believes in letting sleeping dogs lie. And cats. Including the one recently poisoned in Athens and which belonged to the exiled former Sultan.

Unfortunately, as is the way with the Balkans, rumours start flying around; one being that this was a sighting shot for the ex-Sultan himself. This, in the Balkans, could start a war and so Britain has to sit up and take notice. Something has to be done. Fast. And - please, urge the diplomats - low-key. The lowest key of all is to send out a police officer from Scotland Yard to investigate, and, as it happens, the Foreign Office has a person in mind: Seymour, of the CID, who has had some experience of this sort of thing before . . .

Praise for Michael Pearce's A Dead Man in . . . series

'The steady pace, atmospheric design, and detailed description re-create a complicated city. A recommended historical series' Library Journal

'Sheer fun' The Times

'His sympathetic portrayal of an unfamiliar culture, impeccable historical detail and entertaining dialogue make enjoyable reading' Sunday Telegraph
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