Simon Slater

Derek is a photographer in 1950s Notting Hill-decidedly down on his luck.A mysterious envelope drops through the letter box-a stranger asking him to photograph an elegant young woman as she walks through Holland Park.The catch is she must not know she is being snapped.The assignment leads him to the nightlife of Soho in the new multi-cultural landscape of the 1950s. Who is the girl?What do an Irish comedian,a Russian conjuror,and an American saxophone player have to do with a sudden bloody incident?In solving the mystery Derek finds his whole outlook on life is changed