Richard Gregory is his name and the novel is set back in the heady days of the 1950s and 1960s.
The novel comes from the pen of author and retired lawyer and journalist Michael Simmons.
Richard's career as a solicitor had been a stunningly successful one. But things hadn't gone quite to plan, well, in truth there had been a rather spectacular failure that pitched him into the different world of being down and out.
He had, by dint of hard work and a little bit of luck, managed to claw his way back up to some semblance of his previous elevated heights.
But then came a further setback and he had failed to renew his career as a successful solicitor. Well, as any type of solicitor, to be honest.
Yet he still posses his very own slightly careworn piece of paper that announced to the world that he was a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
However, that would only carry a fellow so far. For if anyone were to bother to attempt to verify his credentials with the Law Society they would find that he was not a member in good standing. There was the little matter of not actually having paid his membership dues in a considerable period of time, plus there were some rather, let's say unfortunate, blots of his record at the Law Society.
This is the exceptionally well-crafted and beautifully written novel of what happened after this and what Richard "Dick" Gregory did next.
And also what happened when he met and played with Sidney Bechet.
An ideal Christmas gift for the lover of legal thrillers, it's published by The Book Guild at a rather nifty £7.99 in paperback.
You can buy a copy at the That's Books and Entertainment bookshop at this link here https://goo.gl/nYxiYk.
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