The Godwin Sideboard (1st ed.)

1st edition/1st printing – 1985

Tim Simpson series, Book #2

The murder of Tim Simpson’s friend and antique dealer Peter Blackwell occurs just as Tim is starting his search for a valuable Anglo-Japanese sideboard designed by E.W.Godwin to add to White’s Bank’s innovative Art Fund. The ensuing investigations in Hastings and Brighton involve Tim in physical violence with the rough end of the Brighton antiques trade, an affair with a glamorous American lady dealer called Marianne, a reunion with police inspector and rugby-playing friend Nobby Roberts, and rebarbative exchanges with his employer, Jeremy White. Tim’s physical, emotional and historical resources and his knowledge of the trade’s shady practices are stretched to the limit as he roams in tough and sardonic fashion towards an explosive conclusion.

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