Publisher's Synopsis
Henry, looking disgusted, as well he might, picked his way down the dark and dirty corkscrew stairway of the dilapidated fifteenth century house where he had rooms during the fourth (or possibly it was the fifth) Assembly of the League of Nations. The stairway, smelling of fish and worse, opened out on to a narrow cobbled alley that ran between lofty mediaeval houses down from the Rue du Temple to the Quai du Seujet, in the ancient wharfside quarter of Saint Gervais"
