Saw this in the Bargain Bin on Better World Books and it looked like a good selection for the Mysteries Around the World VBB that I belong to. The featured detective is Seymour of CID in the British Foreign Office, working in Athens in 1912 around the time of the revolution. Don't know much about the history of Greece at that time, so it should make for an interesting read.

A decent read, especially for waiting rooms, which is where I read most of it. Not a fast-moving plot and most of the characters would not be called dynamic. The mystery was decent and the people were decent and the setting (pre-WWI Athens) was decent -- which was in keeping with what I expected. So British. I did enjoy the fact that this book was set in Athens and involved the deposed Sultan from Istanbul, because I read in part as a prelude to my trip next month to Athens which will include a day in Istanbul. Sad about the death of the cat, which was the original case that Seymour was called in to investigate -- although apparently only the Sultan loved the poor thing. The interwoven story line of the Bleriot machines (airplanes) was also interesting. I will read more of Seymour's adventures if I come across them.

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