Jack Paulin

For over twenty years auctioneer Philip Serrell has uncovered many priceless antiques, and has done business with people from some odd corners of English life.

The popular entertainer takes us from his middle-class childhood in Edmonton, through evacuation and the war years to the world of pier shows, music hall, and finally TV stardom.

At a dinner, solicitor Eric Ward meets Ben Shaw, a merchant banker. Shaw seems to know a lot about Eric, and suggests he look into the affairs of Jason Sullivan QC. Meanwhile DCI Charlie Spate is asked to re-open an old case into the killing of Michael Podro.

In 1990 workmen building a new hotel on Alderney are struck down by a mystery illness. Journalist Robert Lebonneur investigates and discovers possible links to the German occupation in WW2. From the diary of a wartime German officer he realises that there is much more at stake than a mystery illness!