Anonymous says:

Interesting but not entirely successful An interesting, but not entirely successful, approach to the detective novel here, in which a nicely-written, and at times witty, courtroom drama is interwoven with a rather derring-do investigation into the French origins of a murder.Victoria Lamartine stands accused of stabbing to death her “lover” Major Thoseby in a London hotel. Both were involved in covert anti-German operations in occupation-torn France and she is believed to have borne his child. Just before the trial, she…