Stratton's War

This is a good complicated read. Two life plots intertwine and its more than half the novel beforethe two key characters Diana Calthrop and Ted Stratton come together. Diana, terribly unhappily married and very young, goes to work for the War Dept during WWII and ends up in MI5--hence the title of t......more

This is a fat book that would've been much better as a thin one. The novel is called "Stratton's War", and I wish the author had told the whole story from Stratton's point of view, uncovering everything in the course of his investigations. However she chose to tell Diana's story in parallel and that......more

An engrossing spy and mystery novel set in World War II Britain combines the investigation of Ted Stratton a 35ish detective who is investigating the presume suicide of Mabel Morgan, a beautiful silent screen star, with the domestic spy investigation by Diane Calthrop and Forbes-James, with MI5 of t......more

London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings in Fitzrovia, the coroner rules her death as suicide, but DI Ted Stratton of the CID is not convinced. Despite opposition from his superiors, he starts asking questions, and it becomes clear that Morgan'......more

This was a new author me. What an interesting novel — a detective novel set during the Blitz in London in WW II. Detective Stratton, the protagonist detective, is a complicated, well developed character. The mysteries involve murder, spies, class distinctions, local police concerns versus national s......more