"Barney Huggins is looking for a tough lady with a scar on her face. His mastery of disguises takes him effortlessly into the nether regions of redlight Soho where he forms a Kamikaze squad of shock-troops, made up of wino's and dropouts. Cleverly marshalling this desperate band, and by dint of some hard double-crossing, he promotes himself to boss of an infamous gang. Yes, Barney was doing all right until Madame Eddie comes along and starts to take prisoners."
Shelley adds that "all of the predicaments and sticky situations he (finds) himself in (are) brought about by his own greed, duplicity and disregard for the welfare of his associates."
Not that the author's other detective, Bernard Holland, the so-called "last private eye in Belfast," is a saint, either. All three books were self-published by the author back in 1984, and John Conquest, in Trouble is Their Business, contends they're parodies, although I'm not so sure. Crazy fun, for sure, though.
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