Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Old man of class and character living in a London square after both have suffered from time. Before his house is pulled down the residents surprise him with a party.
