R C S Hutching
WILKINSON AT WAR
The Woman from St John's Wood
ISBN: 9798787904055
When Clarence Wilkinson first met Jenny Matheson in August 1940, the young woman was caught up in an investigation he was conducting on behalf of British Intelligence. Inveigling her into continuing her romance with a known German agent weighed heavily on his conscience. Himself a confirmed bachelor and sixteen years her senior meant that his measure of guilt was augmented by a feeling of responsibility for her future welfare.
Learning that she had suffered a nervous breakdown increased the concern he felt for her and resulted in her being employed as his assistant in the newly formed section he was charged with operating at the War Office.
Against all the odds the confirmed bachelor and the fragile younger woman find a mutual attraction that will not only enhance their personal lives but prove crucial in resolving their first joint investigation.
The Ten-Bob Traitors
ISBN: 9798871977088
Clarence Wilkinson and Jenny Matheson make some unofficial enquiries about the wellbeing of a soldier based at Overton in Hampshire who, although only slightly injured in a road accident, has been posted to Wales to convalesce. It is 1941 and the young man's father believes that the military authorities are not telling him the whole truth.
The discovery of an excellently forged ten-shilling note points to the possible existence of a Nazi counterfeiting operation in the Overton area. Jenny goes undercover as a school secretary at the girls' boarding school adjacent to the military site while Clarence follows a line of enquiry initiated by the murder of an army deserter in Hackney who was in possession of a substantial quantity of the brand-new forged notes.