About Peter Dickinson: Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson is a prolific English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.
They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will last until you are so old that the humped veins on the back of your hands show dark blue-purple through your wax-white skin.
Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.
