• Title: The Tartan Sell
• Author: Johnathan Gash
• Genre/Subject: Mystery
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1986
• Start date: 6/2/2023
• Finish date: 6/10/2023

Review:

Failing to check my spreadsheet first meant that this was a second read for this one. It seems I had first read this in 1997, deep in the drunken years. So deep in fact that I had zero memory of it. Acceptable for a re-read.

I couldn’t help but enjoy this book, despite it being hopelessly dated: transistor radios, payphones, waiting on the post for letters, and so on.

Despite that, I learned a lot about antiques and the nefarious world of forgers and fakery.

The slang was spot on according to my special correspondent in East Anglia.