The Chinks in the Curtain features the return of that most reluctant spy Edmund Brown, first met in Sour Cream with Everything. Returning ignominiously from Russia to England, he is dispatched to Paris to discover why a source of information has dried up. He infiltrates the household of a Russian emigre through the salacious, if somewhat skeletal, embraces of the Prince's niece. There he uncovers a plot to restore the old regime to Russia, hatched by the Prince and a Rasputin-like priest whose motto is "Give God something to forgive you for." But the underlying sinister implications of the plot elude our hero until the eleventh hour. Joyce Porter irreverently juggles the familiar paraphernalia of midnight tiptoeing, hidden microphones and conniving seduction into a hilarious travesty of the spy story.
- ISBN10 1447246853
- ISBN13 9781447246855
- Publish Date 15 August 2013 (first published September 1967)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 19 January 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Bello
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 216
- Language English