Alfred Flavian Bowman, a retired SW London detective chief inspector, was forced from active duty due to a crippling accident, but he still takes on unusual cases, solving mysteries from his easy chair. His mind assembles clues like the jigsaw puzzles he puts together. Alfred’s housekeeper and cook, Ulima, her son Jason, Jason’s wife Gia, and Chester, the detective who Alfred trained, form an unusual team. They do the legwork and help Alfred solve a series of bewildering mysteries.
In the first book in the series, The Treasure Hunt, they follow a trail of flower petals left after a series of thefts, and come into contact with Grayson Carter, inheritor of a locomotive fortune. How they are linked, and what the team discovers, will eventually lead directly to the kingpin of one of London’s vast underground economies.
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