The Hong Kong Incident

This story is set in May 1959 and starts in Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in London. The department is the Special Branch that handles crime investigations of all government departments and embassies, including the Royal Hong Kong Police Constabulary. A telex arrives in the department of the special branch, which Commander Joseph Watson runs. He sees it, and it tells him that a Foreign Office manager and his Assistant have been killed in a road accident. Joseph ...