About the book: 1936 / Ted Malvern, being by birth not particularly strapped for money and having a private detective’s ID in his pocket, decides to participate without an invitation in the fate of Jean Adrian. The girl first met Malvern lying unconscious in an open hotel room on the same floor as his room. This is not to say that this was a pleasant acquaintance, but the story contains politics, sports intrigue, gangsters and murders.