1914 is going to be a momentous year. World War 1 is declared, Britain is gripped by 'spymania,' and Robson the barman at the Walpole Bay Hotel has invented a new the Walpole Bay Slammer.
Meanwhile a murdered German diplomat is found in a London flat, a body is discovered on a Margate beach, and a suspicious guest arrives at the fashionable Walpole Bay Hotel. When a third body is found, the mystery deepens.
Inspector ‘Artful’ Archie Page of the Dover police arrives to investigate. He thinks he has the answers.
Dorothy Coates and her friend Effie Dalrymple do not agree. Ladies of a certain age, Dorothy and Effie have a taste for fast cars, a good Chablis with lunch, and definitely cocktails before dinner. An unlikely pair of sleuths, Page sees them as a nuisance. They see the Inspector as a man in need of help.
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Richard Savin
Richard Savin is a retired journalist who now devotes his time to writing. In the early part of his career he worked extensively in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
After ten years in Asia he returned to the UK, and in a change of direction, indulged his lifelong passion for cooking, opening his first restaurant under the name of La Petite Auberge de St Savin, where he was head chef. Widely acclaimed by the food critics for the Times, Evening Standard, and the wider press he went on to open and operate two further restaurants in London as well as a popular City bar.
In 1990 he sold his restaurant interests and returned to journalism; first as editor for a national magazine and then as features writer and commissioning editor for Surrey County Council’s education tabloid newspapers. During that time he was a regular guest broadcaster with BBC’s Radio South, until 2005.
His first book, Vakilabad – Iran; was published by Canongate, Edinburgh, 1980 but he did not return to writing books until his retirement. His first novel was published in 2017. Since then he has completed 22 manuscripts, comprising 11 novels 3 memoirs, a children’s picture book and several short stories.
Novels:
A Right to Bear Arms
The Girl in the Baker’s Van
The Boy from the Tangier Souk
The Sudden Death of a Cucumber
More than One Passion
The Haunting of the Harlequin Goat
The Girls from New York; book one
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play,
Funny Money … and a girl
Olly, Me and Smelly McGee
The Man at the Walpole Bay Hotel
Memoirs:
Vakilabad – Iran
Turn Left at Istanbul
In the Company of Goats
Children’s picture storybook:
Harley-Quinn, the Grumpy Goat
Short stories:
Hercule Quincampoix
The Missing Wheels
Girls, Ghosts, Cars and Witches
There is Always Time for Tea
Tales from the Ball’s Pond Road
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