“At about three in the morning of Thursday 3 May, a police constable was on routine night patrol in West London. His beat took him through the small triangle of South Kensington that lies like a wedge between Hyde Park and Knightsbridge.
Nick Foulkes was commissioned to interview Princess Ira von Fürstenberg for The Aesthete column in the HTSI (How To Spend It) supplement to WeekendFT, an agreeable task.
“There is a surplus of books about modern Greece, but this one is the best for many years”, writes a reviewer in the New Statesman in the latter half of the last century.
It’s a few years since I read a classic detective story; one in this case written in the 1920s with all the tropes of the best inter-war detective fiction.