Gavin Scott

The third Duncan Forrester mystery adventure, set in 1947, features Ernest Bevin, the creation of Israel, and a Sumerian demon - plus a luxurious voyage on the Queen Mary to New York and Forrester's best chance of romantic happiness for years....

An extraordinary tale of pre-Victorian England, telling the story of the determined young farm boy from Kent who saved Charles Dickens from becoming a factory worker, operated the notorious chess-playing mechanical Turk, took on the London underworld....

Duncan Forrester has travelled to Greece, intent on recovering the ancient Cretan stone he discovered during the war while part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander. But during a visit to Athens, he witnesses the poisoning of a Greek poet who may have not been the intended target....

It is the winter of 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior ancient history fellow....