In his first postwar adventure, Tommy Hambledon is drawn into a hunt for a large sum of money stolen by the Nazis and hidden in Argentina. Among the players in this three-cornered chase are James Hyde, a fifty-year-old retired tanner longing for a bit of adventure, and Hugh Selkirk, a British subject lately returned from living in Argentina. When Hyde agrees to change places with Selkirk, to whom he bears a remarkable resemblance, all kinds of mischief, including murder, follows. Then there are the singularly inept but still dangerous Gatello gang and a charming pair of modelmakers, Forgan and Campbell, who are destined eventually to become Tommy’s enthusiastic amateur assistants in many future cases. First published in England in 1947 as A Brother for Hugh, it was called by critic Anthony Boucher “a nice exercise in good-humored implausibility.”

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