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In 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, British Agent Ned Finch is on a top secret mission in the Middle Eastern Kingdom of Majaffa. But, after Finch is injured by the Germans, petroleum scientist Ulysses ‘Danger’ Doyle is called in to finish Finch’s investigation. Something isn’t adding up though. Why are the Germans building pipelines in the desert when there’s no oil? An amateur poet with a gifted mind, Danger read the entire works of Sherlock Holmes before he was five. He loved a good mystery, but never expected to find himself bang in the middle of one…
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Stephen Walsh
Author · 17 books
Professor Walsh was educated at Kingston Grammar School, St Paul’s School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From 1963, he worked as a music journalist in London, at first freelance, writing for The Times, Daily Telegraph, and Financial Times, then from 1966 as deputy music critic of The Observer. He has broadcast regularly on musical topics for the BBC; a major feature of BBC Radio 3 programming in 1995 was his six two-hour broadcasts 'Conversations with Craft', in which he talked to Stravinsky's close associate, Robert Craft. Professor Walsh joined Cardiff University as a Senior Lecturer in Music in 1976, and now holds a personal chair in the School. He still contributes music criticism to The Independent and has since published a series of books and long papers on Bartok, Stravinsky, Kurtág and Panufnik, among others. The first volume of his major biography of Stravinsky—Stravinsky: A Creative Spring (Knopf, 1999) — won the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for the best music book published in the UK in the year 2000. Volume Two—Stravinsky: The Second Exile (also Knopf) — was published in 2006.
