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A series of ugly killings has shattered the orderly workings of the Hampstead police station. And truth be told, they have shattered the confidence of the lead investigator on the case, who has long taken pride in his old-school "copper's nose." When yet another body turns up, he's forced to give way to a new chief with fancy new detecting techniques. But when those, too, prove unequal to the task, the police are stymied. So they reach back to the past, invoking the skills of one of the great Gentleman Sleuths. Is this nutty? No doubt. But Lord Peter Wimsey always got his man. In what has been called a "love letter to the traditional mystery novel," Fraser-Sampson brings the Golden Age of Detective Fiction back to glorious life. It's a bit scuffed, perhaps, by its mashup with the 21st century, but even the baddest of contemporary bad guys must quake before the might of a witty epigram.
About the Author
I was previously a senior level investment manager, including a spell as Investment Controller with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and running for several years the international operations of a leading US fund manager. For the past five years I have been designing and teaching a number of post-graduate modules at Cass Business School in the City of London, as well as conducting consultancy and high level training assignments for various investors around the world.
If you live in the UK then you will almost certainly have seen me on television or heard me on radio, particularly in the last several months when I have been in demand to discuss the unfolding financial crisis and what this may mean for investors. If you live elsewhere, then you may have seen me giving a keynote address at an investment conference.
In writing finance and investment books I seek both to entertain and inform. I do not write a book unless I feel I genuinely have something new to say, and every one of my mainstream investment books is on a subject in respect of which I am acknowledged as one of the leading experts in the world.
"No Fear Finance" is different. I have for many years felt that there is an "alternative" way to teaching finance, which is particularly relevant when teaching people with no quantitative background. Having proved this to my satisfaction in the classroom, I then wrote the book. It is, so far as I have been able to ascertain, the only book of its type in the world. It teaches finance in a way which is, so far as possible, conceptual rather than mathematical, and no previous arithmetical ability is assumed.
I also write fiction and history.
