He moved to Madeira soon after and lived there for the rest of his life.
The friend introduces him to Leo Sellick who employs him to find out all he can about the late Edwin Strafford, an English cabinet minister who mysteriously resigned at 32 in 1910 after just two years. He’s an unemployed history graduate so when a university friend asks him to visit the island of Maidera, he jumps at the chance.
Martin Radford is the narrator and an unlikely private detective, although, consistent with the genre’s requirements, he is flawed. The expert suspense-manipulation skills of a Daphne du Maurier romance meets a John le Carre thriller is how the New York Times reviewer put it. It’s Goddard’s first published novel, which makes the Booker feat even more impressive. This 1986 Booker prize-nominated novel is a rewarding reading experience.
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