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A SINGULAR TENANT
A HAWK AND DOVE MYSTERY
LONDON 1957. HE NEEDED A LODGER. HE FOUND A MYSTERY.
London, 1957. Medical student John Ransome places a modest advertisement for a lodger at his Baker Street flat, expecting little more than help with the rent. What arrives instead is Simon Harlech — tall, piercing-eyed, and possessing an unsettling ability to read a man’s life from the scuff of his shoes.
At first, Ransome suspects his new flatmate is simply eccentric. Then he begins to wonder if the man is deranged. For Harlech has not merely moved into Baker Street — he appears to be becoming someone else entirely.
What unfolds across nine extraordinary cases is a partnership unlike any other: a reluctant companion drawn into the orbit of a man of formidable, unnerving deduction, solving crimes that Scotland Yard cannot, in a city that has never quite outgrown its Victorian shadows.
A Singular Tenant is inventive, atmospheric, and thoroughly entertaining. With its 1950s London setting, wry humour, and a central relationship that deepens with every adventure, this is a book for every reader who loves a sharp mystery and an unforgettable double act.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in East London, Patrick Wallis Hickey turned to fiction after a career as a City insurance broker. A lifelong admirer of classic detective fiction he created the Hawk and Dove series to explore what happens when an ordinary person crosses paths with another extraordinary one, and the destiny that awaits both of them. Pat lives with his wife Rita in the Essex village of Chipping Ongar, where he is a member of the Mulberry Writers. group and continues to dream up endings before he has written the beginnings.