From one of Britain’s masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented in bargain-price format. The title story, Lost, introduces the only detective to be given a lead role in a Russell James story (a beguiling character, he is the ex-priest turned detective Joe Venables, who is trawling south London to find a missing daughter). The second story, What’s My Name?, is in characteristic first-person style, but is an amusing (and true) story recounted to the narrator inside a British jail.
