The Marylebone Drop: A Novella

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Today, he has settled upon a hot chocolate--he breakfasted la te, so has no need for anything substantial, but various errands having placed him in the neighbourhood, it would be unthinkable t o pass Fischer's without dropping in.

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His work has wo n the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nomin ated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. So when he sees an old-school drop take place in a favourite Marylebone restaurant, he immediately recognises it for what it is.His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. Solomon Dortmund, eyes closed, takes a sip, and for one tiny moment is transported to his childhood. To his left, by the window, is a young blonde woman, and Solomon allows his gaze to linger on her, for this young woman is very attractive, in today’s idiom; beautiful in Solomon’s own, for Solomon is too old to pay heed to the ebb and flow of linguistic fashion, and he knows beauty when he sees it.

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To anyone watching as he heads for the outside world, he is no more than old-fashioned clothing on a sticklike frame; a judgement he would accept without demur. Hannah’s boss appears to be sexually harassing her, but Hannah - a Triple Agent - is lying in an attempt to get a role that’s more useful to her BND handlers. His life having embraced many people who disapp eared too soon, he is attentive to those who remain within sight, which today include an elderly pair sitting beneath the clock, a nd whose conversation, he feels, will mirror that device's progre ss, being equally regular, equally familiar, equally unlikely to surprise; three intense young men, heavily bearded, discussing po litics (he hopes), or at least literature, or chess; and a pair o f women in their forties who are absorbed in something one of the m has summoned up on her telephone. The meeting at the Park might well have occurred earlier than the drop on Maryle bone High, but that was a detail only, and when the time came for the whole business to be black-ribboned and consigned to the arc hive, nobody would care that a strip-lit office with functional f urniture had been where the starting pistol was fired.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Richard Pynne is the new and inexperienced handler who’s taken on Hannah Weiss, the Double Agent Bachelor recruited at the end of The List. Seasone d Park watchers later said that the affair really began in Fische r's, that beloved café and konditorei that bestows a touch of ear ly twentieth-century Vienna on the foothills of twenty-first-cent ury Marylebone High Street; its warm interior, its spring yellows and glazed browns, a welcome refuge from the winter-drizzled pav ements.