Body Politic

Synopsis

"An independent city where television, popular music, cigarettes and private cars are banned, where the citizens are dedicated to the welfare of the tourists attending the year-round Festival, Edinburgh in the 2020s has its drawbacks for blues-haunted Quintilian Dalrymple - unpaid work as a part-time private investigator is his only form of entertainment." [source: first paragraph from front dust jacket flap of Hodder & Stoughton first edition]