Book description
Dorset House is the home of the Claygate family, and a place where
diplomats love to congregate. When young Maurice Claygate and Sophie
Lenart, a notorious woman spy, are found shot dead, Inspector Arnold
Box, investigating the murders, hears from Colonel Kershaw, Head of
Secret Intelligence, that there are international ramifications to the
case. Together the two men pursue a ruthless thief and a stolen document
across France, bring the affair to a devastating and unexpected climax
in the great palace of Louis XIV, the Sun King, at Versailles. Set in
late Victorian times, this is the seventh book in the Inspector Box
series. Norman Russell was born in Lancashire but has lived most of
his life in Liverpool. After graduating from Jesus College, Oxford, he
served a term in the army in Jamaica and the Bahamas. Returning to study
for a Diploma in Education, he was later awarded the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy. He now writes full-time.
