Tuesday 12 April 2022

Golden Age (35) : Beware of Johnny Washington

An early postwar story by Francis Durbridge, he reworked the first Paul Temple radio serial he had written with new characters and this is the result. 

Johnny Washington is a debonaire American gentleman and newspaper columnist who is framed to be involved with a successful gang of jewel thieves. Johnny Washington becomes involved in the hunt for the gang's leader, the elusive Grey Moose, alongside the enigmatic Horatio Quince...

This is a good fun read. It is a bit of a cheat maybe, being a rewrite of an earlier book but has plenty of drive and energy. And a definite sense of style.