Robert Cawdron

A wannabe Scotland Yard detective running a general goods store gets caught between crooks, spies and a nutty professor who lost a top-secret formula.

A mystery writer and his bride on holiday arrive at their remote cabin to find a dead body and a gangster followed by dueling gangs of jewel thieves.

Early twenty-something Arthur Seaton was born into a working class family in Nottingham, England, and seems destined to remain in that working class life. To dull the pain of his life, he spends his time boozing on Saturday nights, and having an affair with the more mature Brenda, a mother and wife married to his friend and co-worker, Jack.