Hired to keep tabs on Rawdon Neville, a retired British Colonel, Inspector Kenworthy and Neville embark on a sentimental journey through Neville's glory days of World War II until late one night, Neville gives the inspector the slip
John Buxton Hilton was a British crime writer. After his war service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring in 1970 to take up full-time writing.
He wrote the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood. Hilton died in Norwich.