The Amazing Mr Blackshirt
By Roderic Jeffries
On his way to an auction, Richard Verrell’s car gives just sufficient trouble to prevent his being present when two pendants, in which he is particularly interested, are sold.
To obtain the first of the pendants, Blackshirt pays a nocturnal visit to Bishop’s Place, a visit which is to have enough unforeseen results to satisfy even his desire for excitement.
This, the fifth in the Blackshirt series, sees the famous cracksman laugh his way through a series of adventures that would leave any ordinary mortal gasping for breath.
Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and was educated at Harrow View House Preparatory School and the Department of Navigation, University of Southampton. In 1943, he joined the New Zealand Shipping Company as an apprentice and sailed to Australia and New Zealand, but later transferred to the Union Castle Company in order to visit a different part of the world. He returned to England in 1949 where he was admitted to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and read for the Bar at the same time as he began to write. His books have been adapted for film, television, and radio. His father, Graham Jeffries (pseudonym Bruce Graeme), began the Blackshirt series in 1925.
