The Sparsholt Affair Leo Carew he's on the track of

he's on the track of a serial killer - with the help of a street-liver and an ex-English teacher pensioner

marriage and reputation

And as Owen races against time to find the murderer amongst them

becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined

The Sparsholt Affair Leo Carew he's on the track ofIn October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one