Circles & Squares — John Malcolm

The lady called Bassington murdered in Pimlico had written Tim Simpson's name in her diary. So Tim, called to breakfast by his fellow Rugby-player and friend Chief Inspector Nobby Roberts, finds himself deeper and deeper enmeshed in a complex pursuit of film library investment, the paintings of Sir William Nicholson and son Ben, South African connections and unscrupulous killers before reaching a tense conclusion.