The Stretton Street Affair

In the quiet of a Surrey farmhouse, a young former RAF officer turned electrical engineer begins to recount a bewildering episode that thrust him from routine office work into a tangled web of deception. Hugh Garfield, fresh from the war and freshly inherited modest wealth, shares how a seemingly ordinary business appointment in London spirals into a baffling series of events that involve secret societies, suspicious foreign trade, and a startling death that haunts his family.

The narrative unfolds as Hugh, together with his wartime comrade‑turned‑solicitor Henry Hambledon, navigates a maze of hidden motives and unexpected alliances that threaten to upend their respectable lives. As the first act progresses, the pair find themselves drawn into a plot that tests their loyalty, ingenuity, and the very notion of what they thought they knew about post‑war Britain.