In 1920’s London a set of politically motivated French criminals are discovered interfering at The Conference of London. After a jazz club is destroyed in a fire Jack James, the resident jazz pianist, works together with Cranston Baxter, the world’s first Professional Gentleman, to find out what the Red Button Set are planning.
Set in post-war Europe, Jack and Cranston travel from London to Paris and San Remo, Italy, in their search for answers.
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I had always felt that one could describe how the Dodo looked in just four words: Golden pools of light. But to really do it justice you had to describe who the Dodo was.
In the corner, by the door, sat the owner. An ex-patriot Frenchman we called the Patron. His unwritten rule stated that he didn’t mind who you were, or what you were up to, so long as you paid for your drinks, danced at little and left the place as you found it.
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