Publisher's Synopsis
'DEVIOUS PEOPLE' 'The Tangled Web of Patrick Doyle' By Guy C. Smith
A tale of deceit, connivance, depravity, romance, and murder. Set in the ritzy glitter harbour-side suburb of Sydney's Double Bay. It takes the characters to meetings and happenings in high society restaurants, illegal private gambling clubs, amongst race track hustlers, gamblers, and confidence tricksters.
Patrick Doyle, a stylish rogue, confidence trickster, and competent street fighter. Also, an out-of-luck gambler overhears a telephone conversation about the delivery of an envelope to the reception desk of a major city hotel. In the envelope will be the key to a city mailbox containing a parcel of cash. Patrick intercepts the envelope pickup, then collects the parcel containing the money. In doing so becomes involved in a murder plot. It forces him to utilise his old skills, to untangle himself from this tangled web.
