Envoy on Excursion Author:Caryl Brahms, S. J. Simon This farce, set in 1939, includes many figures from real life, including leading Nazis. It tells of a major diplomatic scandal which threatens when an emissary from the central European kingdom of Insomnia is found murdered in Whitehall. Adam Quill, an inspector in two prior novels, here works for British intelligence. First publishe... more »d in 1940.« less