Henry Quill is a world-famous investigative journalist. He once had a beautiful wife and a three-million pound mansion overlooking Primrose Hill in London, until he lost a libel case against billionaire media tycoon Rodrick Bannerman.

Now Quill's homeless and he can't climb out of the hole he's in because every penny he earns must go to Bannerman. Nevertheless, the sleuth in him cannot be suppressed and he ends up conducting murder and missing persons inquiries from his sleeping bench in the back garden of St James's church on Piccadilly.

London is one crime novel made up of five different successive cases, threaded together by Quill's tragic decline and ongoing conflict with Bannerman.


In Archaeology he searches for an East End gangster's missing daughter.

Then, in the Second Summer of Love he tries to solve the thirty-one-year-old case of a murdered rave promoter.

Later, in Brixton Patsy, he tries to determine whether or not a black youth has been wrongly convicted for stabbing another young black man to death, while In The Girl With The Red Hair he's intrigued by a woman who's disappeared into thin air after leaving the Cabinet Office on Whitehall.

Finally in Framed in St James he must prove his own innocence after a dead body turns up in the churchyard where he sleeps.

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