Inspector Bentwhistle's Last Tango

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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Drop a born and bred<span class="SpellE">Yorkshireman</span>, retired after twenty five years as Scotland Yard's most respected Detective Inspector, into the sun baked society of</span><st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Southern California</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"> and you have the stock for this<span class="SpellE">binational</span> bouillabaisse.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Add cameo performances of a dozen of his former antagonists, members of</span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial">London</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">'s underground who he had caught at one time or<span class="GramE">another,</span> come to</span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"> to demonstrate their individual type of larceny. Receipt of an Egyptian mummy which ticks, theft of the entire articulated skeleton of a Brontosaurus from the museum, bank robbery as a Bachelor Dinner, are among them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">They come to pick up a few bucks in the "American Colony" but also as a means of saying good-bye and good riddance. Or just possibly out of respect for the man or even a real liking. (They provide the music for his last tango.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Mix in the beautiful<span class="SpellE">Arabella</span>, a Duchess by marriage and Queen of all</span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">London</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><span class="SpellE">bunco</span> by her other talents and<span class="SpellE">Bentwhistle's</span> long time unrequited love. With her arrival the "Great Game" can continue. The rules being that he would marry her if he could not solve every larceny that is committed by her friends. That is the flavoring in the stew between these covers.</span></p></div>

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