London Calling: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery. Sara Sheridan by Sara Sheridan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
1952, Brighton and London. When 17 year old debutante Rose Bellamy Gore goes missing in a seedy Soho jazz club the prime suspect is black saxophone player, Lindon Claremont, the last person to be seen talking to her. Under suspicion, Lindon heads straight for Brighton and his childhood friend, Vesta Churchill who works with ex-Secret Service office girl Mirabelle Bevan, now in charge of the McGuigan and McGuigan Debt Collection Agency.
Things go really pear shaped from then on in, and Ms Bevan needs to use all her wartime acquired skills and powers of persuasion to get to the bottom of a mystery that involves racism, pornography and mmm, nice, jazz. It’s my first encounter with the character and although I find some of the fifties dialogue rather peculiar, I’ll put that down to my working class Scotch upbringing which has left me a stranger to the idioms of jazz conversation.
Apart from that, a thoroughly readable mystery, with an interesting backdrop in post-war Britain.
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