Events

The History/Mystery Book Group, a new reading group focusing on mysteries in historical settings, will have its organizational meeting to discuss common interests and select books for discussion at future meetings. The book for discussion at this first meeting is Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery by James Benn (Soho, $14.00). What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop doing an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Back home Billy Boyle had barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight--and perhaps die--for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians. Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to