From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the second
in a new series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in
the British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s.
The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died in
decidedly strange circumstances while attempting to swim the
Dardanelles Straits, the passage between Europe and Asia, heavily
used by warships, liners, tankers and cargo vessels of all kinds. A
romantic attempt to repeat the legendary feat of Leander, as the
Embassy says? Or an attempt to spy out a possible landing place for
a British military expedition, as the Turks insist? Whichever,
Cunningham has ended up with a bullet in his head. The suspicious
circumstances of his death have to be investigated so the Foreign
Office sends out an officer of the Special Branch: Seymour. As
Seymour tries to untangle the threads which lead to Cunningham's
death, their ends lead him into all parts of the city, from the
little box shops of the Avenue of Slippers to Les Petits Champs des
Morts, where fashionable Turkish ladies loiter among the tombs to
eat sweets; from the crowded coffee houses around the Galata Bridge
where men sit all day smoking bubble pipes to the heart of the
Topkapi Palace itself.
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