"1930-1939" . . "Literature." . . "sort humor" . . "London" . . "London (England) Fiction." . . "Fiction." . . "Mystery fiction." . . "London (England)" . . "thriller" . . "Roman." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh." . . "Deception Fiction" . . . . . . . . . . "Historical fiction" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . . "Crime" . . . . . . . . . . "At the chime of a city clock" . "At the chime of a city clock"@en . . . . . . . . . "Black humor" . . . "Noir fiction"@en . "At the Chime of a City Clock"@en . "Noir fiction" . "Large type books" . . "Large type books"@en . . . . "Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater and James Ross is on his uppers. An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy ('It's the slump'), with a landlady harassing him for unpaid rent and occasional sleepless nights spent in the waiting room at King's Cross Station, he is reduced to selling carpet-cleaning lotion door-to-door. His prospects brighten when he meets the glamorous Suzi ('the red hair and the tight jumper weren't a false card: she really was a looker and no mistake'), but their relationship turns out to be a source of increasing bafflement. Who is her boss, the mysterious Mr Rasmussen -"@en . . . "Nineteen thirties Fiction." . . "Englisch." . .