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One of the worst novels I have ever read, the characters are so artificial, the principal character gives out 5 pound notes in a tip this would represent about 25% of his annual salary. The dialect is current low life Scotland while in that period the dialect would be as in a Burns Poem, would be unintelligible to a modern reader.In the period homosexuality was a Penal Offence and the participants and there clubs would be well known to the police. I wonder why the ace detective never interviews friends of the murdered?.