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In this encomium to the British mystery writers the author adores, Ginevra Bishop and Sidney Braithwaite are students at Oxford University in 1951. Thrown together when a beloved librarian suffers a “heart attack” at their feet, the two are recruited by MI5 to investigate a Russian spy ring. Gin comes from upper class England; Sydney is a coal miner’s son with physical and emotional wounds from the war. The two, supposedly unfit for one another based on their class differences and contrived bickering, start making googly eyes at one another on page four and continue to do so every five...