Leonardo & Others: 'Suspense'

Calouste Fisher, ex-policeman turned private detective with a practice in the heart of Covent Garden, accepts a commission to trace a missing sculpture. It was my first art job, a welcome change from my other work. The divorce business was becoming more civilised by the day. Solicitors, accountants and therapists were taking over the detective business by fighting in out with headed notepaper and psycho chats. Within twenty-four hours of his taking on the case a girl is murdered, Cal is shot at and the sculpture is mysteriously ‘found’. Cal is intrigued when the man who initially hired him approaches him again, and even more intrigued when the man meets an ‘accidental’ death before they can talk. Convinced that the sculpture is the cause of these deaths Cal sets out to discover why its whereabouts is of such importance. His search cracks the veneer of a seemingly respectable art and antique business and also leads him into acute personal danger.