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Product Description Peace has come to England and the blackout is over, but the gloom has yet to lift from London. One night, leaving a gambling club where he has run up a considerable tab, the young painter Francis Bacon, accompanied by his lover, sees a man gunned down in the street. Soon afterward, Bacon receives a strange offer from the club owner: He will erase Bacon's debts if the painter delivers a package to the dead man's widow on the Riviera. What gambler could resist a trip to Monte Carlo? The Riviera may be lovely, but in 1945, its sun-drenched beaches can be just as dark as the back alleys of London. About the Author Janice Law is a writer and painter who has also been published in the fields of journalism, academia and history. Her Anna Peters detective series was nominated for an Edgar and her Francis Bacon series won the Lambda Literary Gay Mystery Award (The Prisoner of the Riviera). She taught college English for 20 years before retiring to the country in Connecticut where she lives with her husband.Paul Ansdell has been an actor and voice actor for over 20 years, and can be heard narrating numerous audiobooks including The Woman in Black, and I'm the King of the Castle, both for Susan Hill, and Deadly Focus by RC Bridgestock.