The Walking Stick

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Review: Deborah Dainton was born with polio but with the aid of a walking stick, she still is able to hold a job as appraising precious chinaware for Whittington Auction House. Bohemian artist Leigh Hartly is not put off by the beautiful and cultured Deborah's refusals to see him. Slowly, she falls in love with him and so is drawn by small and sinister steps into a world new to her, a world of shills and front men where the stakes are high and the danger also. The climax of this book is a precisely executed and dangerous robbery, described in the novel as it occurs minute by minute in masterly detail.