Pure delight from the long and wonderful Musical Career of Leslie Bricusse. President of Footlights, he paved the way to Broadway writing so many brilliant songs, often with Anthony Newley. “If I Ruled The World”, “What Kind of Fool Am I?”, “Gonna Build A Mountain”, “You Only Live Twice”…I could go on but Sammy Davis Jr. recorded 60 of his songs…An inspiration and delightful company.

A mighty book in all senses. About us, and who we are and how we came to be so.

He can take a character and create a whole novel out of it. This is about a sweet little old lady who comes to Paris to ask Maigret to come to the Le Havre coast to solve the murder of her servant.

The most magnificent short novel. Glorious. Beautiful written. Like the essence of a novel.