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In this dazzling debut book imbued with the wealthy intrigue of Kate Atkinson's literary mysteries and the spirited heart of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, a disparate band of Londoners plunge into a visit a missing American actress. Inside the dreary times of November 1965, American actress Iolanthe Green is just about the toast of the Western world End. Charismatic, incomprehensible, and beautiful, she brings color and a sprinkling of glamour to the scuffed planks of Soho's Galaxy Theatre. But one night, after another rapturously received performance, Iolanthe strolls through the stage door, out into the cold London nighttime, and vanishes. Most of London is riveted as Fleet Block speculates about the lacking actress' destiny. But after a while and the case develops colder, the public's interest converts to the unfolding Moors Murders and erupting political scandals. Only Anna Treadway, Iolanthe's dresser at the Galaxy, still cares. A young female of dogged dedication with a few dark secrets of her own, she is determined to resolve the mystery of the lacking actress. A disparate band of London émigrés - an Irish policeman, a Turkish coffee-house owner and his rebellious girl, and a literature-loving Jamaican accountant - joins Anna in her pursuit, an odyssey leading them into a netherworld of jazz night clubs, backstreet doctors, law enforcement officials brutality, and seaside ghost towns. Each of these uncommon sleuths has come to London to flee the past and forge a new future. Yet as they bring closer to uncovering the reality of Iolanthe's disappearance, they may have to face the reality about themselves.
