Cavalcade

Germany 1923 and that seemingly ill-matched pair of Pinkerton detectives Phil Beaumont and Jane Turner are facing their most dangerous assignment. In a Berlin park, supposedly at a secret meeting, a little-known but on-the-rise German politician is the target of an assassination attempt and the Pinkertons are hired to track down the sniper. The first question they face is just who is this Adolf Hitler and why would anyone want to kill him? It turns out, quite a few people, not the least some in his own fledgling National Socialist party (and not to mention a passing Englishman called Household). A trail of murders lead 'The Pinkerton Pair' from Berlin night clubs such as the Mikado Bar and the Black Cat Cabaret, which offer rather specialised entertainment, to an Institute of Sexology and then, after changing trains with a certain Mr Norris, to Bayreuth and Munich to meet, among others, the Wagner family, Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering, accompanied by Hitler's best friend Putzi Hanfstaengl, who may not be the genial host he pretends to be. First UK publication.