FATHER JOHN O'CONNOR OF ST. CUTHBERT'S, BRADFORD WHOSE TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION WITH A GRATITUDE GREATER THAN THE WORLD FLAMBEAU, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions. Some say a career of crime had left him with too many scruples for a career of detection. Anyhow, after a life of romantic escapes and tricks of evasion, he had ended at what some might consider an appropriate address: in a castle in Spain. The castle, however, was solid though relatively small; and the black vineyard and green stripes of kitchen garden covered a respectable square on the brown hillside. For Flambeau, after all his …
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