Poet in the gutter - John Baker

Sam Turner has always had a romantic yearning to be Sam Spade. So he tells his men's group in York that he's a private eye - it's better than admitting he's an unemployed alcoholic.

But then one of his friends asks for help in tracking an erring wife. So suddenly Sam is a P.I. And the next thing he knows, he's on the track of a serial killer with the help of a street-liver and an ex-English teacher pensioner . . .

'Exceedingly cunning, laid back plot . . . Genial, fast and funny'
Philip Oaks, Literary Review

?Something quite unexpected . . . Entrancing ? and funny?
Natasha Cooper, TLS