A Scream in Soho (British Library Crime Classics)

German bombers are overhead and there is danger the streets of London.

A tall foreigner with strange 'blind' looking eyes triggers one of Detective Inspector McCarthy's infamous 'hunches'.

Later that night, during the pitch blackness of the wartime blackout, a piercing scream rends the air and Detective Inspector McCarthy is first on the scene to find a bloodied murder weapon, a woman's lace handkerchief, but no victim to be seen.

As McCarthy attempts to unravel the mystery, the bodies start to pile up, and the whodunit becomes a more complex and colourful story of secret government plans, cross dressing German spies, and murderous dwarves.

McCarthy must move through the dark, seedy Soho underworld - peopled by Italian Gangsters and glamorous Austrian aristocrats alike - not only to find his murderer, but to save Britain's defences against the Nazi threat.

Set in London during the early days of the Second World War, A Scream in Soho is an evocative and suspenseful London novel from the golden age of British detective fiction.
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