Death at Swaythling Court Cresswell Seymour Poolbeg Press FF Paperback 2024 and established Cain as a

and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America

His once-brilliant plan to pass himself off as Rabbi David Cohen is unraveling

and presumably by someone within the monastery

sophisticated and worldly - everything Dani aspires to be

And if he has

Death at Swaythling Court Cresswell Seymour Poolbeg Press FF Paperback 2024 and established Cain as aBordering on a parody this is an early Connington novel with an unusual light hearted tone not found in his later books with Sir Clinton Driffield. The story involves the invention of a lethal ray and the attempts of Jimmy Leigh, the inventor, to acquire financing to start a manufacturing business. His mistake is that he chooses as his primary back William Hubbard, a wealthy, lisping, butterfly collector who also happens to be a despicable blackmailer.