Book description
'I suppose it would be possible to tail a fellow Englishman for a month
about the South of France. It wouldn't be easy, operating singly. And
presumably it wouldn't do for him to know?' 'He's unaware that I'm in
touch with you, and if he does catch you on his heels, he'll undoubtedly
explode. If that happens, explode back at him and wait for him to simmer
down. Actually, I think you and he might get on reasonably well.' When a
retired English colonel plans a walking tour in the South of France, his
wife engages Kenworthy to mind him. Is this an unpardonable breach of
personal privacy? And is Colonel Neville's purpose really sinister-as it
sometimes appears? Kenworthy finds him in turn eccentric, domineering,
secretive and, on occasion, bumblingly inefficient; then he loses him.
Murder follows, and Kenworthy, helped by Monique Colin, a delectable
young private eye from an agency in Nice, traces a trail back to the
wartime Resistance: a world of pride, passions, jealousies and shame, in
which the harshness of reality was sometimes more powerful than the
heroism. John Buxton Hilton was born in 1921 in Buxton, Derbyshire.
After his war service in the army he became an Inspector of schools,
before retiring in 1970 to take up full-time writing. Hilton wrote two
books on language teaching as well as being a prolific crime writer -
his works include the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the
Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series as
John Greenwood.
