Needless Alley Av Natalie Marlow

<p><b>''Transplanting the hardboiled Hollywood noir of the 1940s to the backstreets of 1933 Birmingham, [<i>Needless Alley</i>] has all the seamy glitter and cynical grime of the genre'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b><i>''</i>A great sense of period and place...creates an atmosphere of mounting menace and dread'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>BIRMINGHAM, 1933.</b><br><br>Private enquiry agent William Garrett, a man damaged by a dark childhood spent on Birmingham''s canals, specialises in facilitating divorces for the city''s male elite. With the help of his best friend - charming, out-of-work actor Ronnie Edgerton - William sets up honey traps. But photographing unsuspecting women <i>in flagrante</i> plagues his conscience and William heaves up his guts with remorse after every job. <br><br>However, William''s life changes when he accidentally meets the beautiful Clara Morton and falls in love. Little does he know she is the wife of a client - a leading fascist with a dangerous obse