Inspector Bentwhistle's Last Tango

Drop a born and bred Yorkshireman,
retired after twenty five years as Scotland Yard's most respected Detective
Inspector, into the sun baked society of and you have the stock for this binational bouillabaisse.

Add cameo performances of a dozen of his former antagonists,
members of 's underground who he had caught at
one time or another, come to to demonstrate their individual
type of larceny. Receipt of an Egyptian mummy which ticks, theft of the entire
articulated skeleton of a Brontosaurus from the museum, bank robbery as a
Bachelor Dinner, are among them.

They come to pick up a few bucks in the "American
Colony" but also as a means of saying good-bye and good riddance. Or just
possibly out of respect for the man or even a real liking. (They provide the
music for his last tango.)

Mix in the beautiful Arabella, a
Duchess by marriage and Queen of all bunco by
her other talents and Bentwhistle's long time
unrequited love. With her arrival the "Great Game" can continue. The
rules being that he would marry her if he could not solve every larceny that is
committed by her friends. That is the flavoring in the stew between these
covers.