The Mask of Perpetuity

This is the first book in the George Melville Mystery series and as such sees our eponymous hero investigative officer George Melville, who works for a law firm get tangled up in the murky world of pre-second world war espionage. He meets an eccentric Scottish laird who in fact is his British secret service contact, as he is unsuspectingly thrust into the dangerous life as an ill-prepared secret agent in Hong Kong, Macau, Cairo and eventually Ireland, where he meets again his old friend Ins...