Delightfully quirky and original, it feels like a Golden Age detective
novel transposed, wonderfully, into the 21st century.
--Peter James, author of Dead Simple and Dead Man's Time
An unimaginably valuable pink diamond has gone missing and a mysterious
Russian residing in Switzerland is suspected of having made off with the
treasured jewel. But the investigative duo of Johann Friedrich von
Allmen and his Guatemalan butler Carlos are on the case. Their search
leads from London to Zurich to a grand hotel on the Baltic coast.
Amorous adventures and diverting mishaps litter the path through a world
of European high culture and luxury, with hard-knuckle forays into
global financial markets and high tech moves to manipulate them. This is
the second in a series of fast-paced detective novels devoted to a
memorable gentleman thief who, with his trusted sidekick, runs an
international detective agency to recover stolen precious objects. Don't
miss the first in the series,
Allmen and the Dragonflies, also published by New Vessel Press.