The Devil's Banquet Paperback by Phil Lecomber

Product Details

• Publisher: Titan Books (2026-07-07)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 416 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781835417317
• Item Weight: 300.51 grams
• Dimensions: 19.79 x 13.08 x 2.62 cm

The second novel in the Piccadilly Noir series, this dark historical thriller sees Cockney private eye George Harley return to the streets of London’s Soho, populated by gangsters, wide-boys and lowlifes, to investigate a missing cabaret dancer. For fans of Dominic Nolan and Laura Shepherd Robinson.

It is 1933, four years after Cockney private eye George Harley brought the infamous child-killer the ‘Nursery Butcher’ to justice, and he’s back in business operating a new detective agency in Soho. For their first case, Harley and his new assistant Bunty are engaged to find a young girl who has run away from home to join a cabaret troupe led by the notorious ‘Queen of Depravity’ Ilse Blau.

But in Harley’s liminal world, things are never straightforward, and the detective soon finds himself embroiled in another pitch-dark scenario, with London’s decadent, thrill-seeking gentry on one side and West End mobsters and wide-boys in search of easy cash on the other.

Returning to London’s frowzy alleyways and sleazy nightclubs, Harley will hunt down answers – no matter how uncomfortable they might turn out to be. But when he becomes ensnared in the mind games of a wily femme fatale, and finds himself up against ruthless Glaswegian gangsters, well-connected occultists, and undercover SS agents, those answers become increasingly hard to find.

About the Author

Phil Lecomber was born in 1965 in Slade Green, on the outskirts of south-east London. He has been married to his wife, Susie, for thirty-six years, and they have two adult children. Now living in Bath, he spent most of his working life in the capital. His career has included work as a musician in the city’s clubs and pubs, a steel-fixer on the towering edifices of the Square Mile, and a designer of stained-glass windows. For thirty-five years he worked in Mayfair at the internationally renowned auction house Sotheby’s, overseeing electronic security for some of the world’s most valuable works of art.