Under Admiralty Arch

Winter 1953. Robert Lynnford, star crime-reporter of The London Herald, discovers - while investigating the murders of two nightclub croupiers and the fraudulent activities of an investment advisor in the City of London - a dead body with all the hallmarks of an assassination. And first on the scene, Lynnford quickly becomes, for some, himself a suspect.

Meanwhile, Lynnford's investigations broaden, and a Polish woman who has fled to post-war Britain seeking refuge from communist Poland soon...