The Geranium Kiss

From the Limehouse docks to the nightclubs of Soho, Scott Mitchell is at home in the darkest corners of London. A hardboiled private investigator in the tradition of Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer, Mitchell first appeared in Amphetamines and Pearls (1976). With that novel and its sequels—The Geranium Kiss (1976), Junkyard Angel (1977), and Neon Madman (1977)—author John Harvey introduced the American hardboiled style to England, ensuring the British Isles would never be the same.