The Golden Child

This is Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, a classically plotted British mystery centered around the arrival of "The Golden Child" at a London museum. The story follows Waring Smith, a hapless junior officer at a prominent London museum, who is tasked with overseeing the opening of the year's biggest exhibition. When he is nearly strangled by a shadowy assailant and subsequently packed off to Moscow to negotiate with a mysterious curator, he finds himself at the heart of a sinister web involving conspiracy, fraudulent artifacts, and murder.

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