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    Sizzling summer book reviews

    Dec 04, 2020 4 minutes
    by Mark Laurie of South Seas Books, Port Elliot.

    The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness

    by Malcolm Pryce

    Published by Bloomsbury Publishing

    ISBN 978140889529

    $29.99

    It’s 1948 and Jack Wenlock’s young life appears to be following the unhappy trajectory of the British Empire which produced him, the latter never having been the same since the silver roast beef trolley was buried at the Singapore Golf Club, ahead of the advancing Japanese. A railway detective in the age of steam, Jack is dismissed when the railways are nationalised, leaving him to face a precarious financial position while avoiding the murderous Room 42, a shadowy organisation bent on

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