Glyn Timmins
ASIN: B00DXK3HLS
Publisher: LUNA ECLIPSE LTD
Pages: 453
It seemed as if one minute Gary Farrow was heading his force’s CID and the next he’d fallen victim to the latest round of spending cuts and he was packing the contents of his desk into a brown cardboard box. Thrust into unplanned retirement Gary had no notion of how the next phase of his life would work out. The ‘phone stopped ringing at all hours of the day and night and there was suddenly no-one knocking his door eager for his advice or counsel. Shuffling round in dressing gown and slippers he fed on a diet of daytime TV. It seemed to Gary that every other programme involved someone making money from antiques and collectibles and he decided that if they could do it, so could he. Fortunately he had a good friend, Mark Foster-Blythe, who was a successful dealer and who gladly took him under his wing. However, the business took a nasty turn when Mark’s friend, Henry Snape, himself a ...