| Author: | Munday, Dennis | ISBN: | 9781909008007 |
| Publisher: | Wholepoint Publications | Publication: | April 23, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Munday, Dennis |
| ISBN: | 9781909008007 |
| Publisher: | Wholepoint Publications |
| Publication: | April 23, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
What A Way To Earn A Shilling kicks off when Paul Earl Gray hires Private Investigator Frank King to pay off a black mailer who has compromising photos of the singer in Gray's latest group, Jimmy Carter and The Soul Sonic 5. Gray, a violent thug by nature, could easily take care of the business himself and, even though he claims to be legitimate, the assignment mystifies our intrepid Private Eye. Not realising he has been misled from the outset and short of work, King reluctantly agrees to make the pay off. Gray started out by muscling in on the fly-posting racket, before moving into management. Now, he's big stuff in the music business with a roster that includes the rock band Thunderflash, whose records sell by the shed load. Grays persona doesn't pose a problem for King, as he grew up with men like this and knows how to handle himself. The story is set in Southeast London during the swinging sixties, when a £100 in the right police station could buy anything, except murder - that was extra. These were the good old days, where even the heads of the Flying Squad and the Serious Crime squad were bent. What A Way To Earn A Shilling hearkens back to a time when there was an Empire and Britannia ruled the waves, and the whole world swung to Greenwich Mean Time; just as the teenagers of the day were swinging to the sound of Britains first wave of Britpop. Frank King is a gumshoe who is on the up and will bend the rules when the need arises, but he will never knowingly break the law. What A Way To Earn A Shilling's fast moving story weaves its way through South East London with a page-turning edginess and contains a rich seam of real life characters.
What A Way To Earn A Shilling kicks off when Paul Earl Gray hires Private Investigator Frank King to pay off a black mailer who has compromising photos of the singer in Gray's latest group, Jimmy Carter and The Soul Sonic 5. Gray, a violent thug by nature, could easily take care of the business himself and, even though he claims to be legitimate, the assignment mystifies our intrepid Private Eye. Not realising he has been misled from the outset and short of work, King reluctantly agrees to make the pay off. Gray started out by muscling in on the fly-posting racket, before moving into management. Now, he's big stuff in the music business with a roster that includes the rock band Thunderflash, whose records sell by the shed load. Grays persona doesn't pose a problem for King, as he grew up with men like this and knows how to handle himself. The story is set in Southeast London during the swinging sixties, when a £100 in the right police station could buy anything, except murder - that was extra. These were the good old days, where even the heads of the Flying Squad and the Serious Crime squad were bent. What A Way To Earn A Shilling hearkens back to a time when there was an Empire and Britannia ruled the waves, and the whole world swung to Greenwich Mean Time; just as the teenagers of the day were swinging to the sound of Britains first wave of Britpop. Frank King is a gumshoe who is on the up and will bend the rules when the need arises, but he will never knowingly break the law. What A Way To Earn A Shilling's fast moving story weaves its way through South East London with a page-turning edginess and contains a rich seam of real life characters.
