Mr Love and Justice

Frankie Love, new to his profession as a ponce, seems to run his illegal life on strictly fair principles. Ted Justice, recently appointed member of the vice squad, finds his upholding of the law complicated by love for his girl.

Love is travestied in the activities of the prostitute, justice mocked in the procedure of the vice squad, as Colin MacInnes writes with an authenticity which only an intimate knowledge of the seamier side of life can deliver. It is a world in which motives, friendships and values are never as simple as they seem.



A talented off-beat journalist and social observer, Colin MacInnes is best known for his trilogy of London novels which includes

Absolute Beginners as well as

City of Spades and

Mr Love and Justice. He also wrote about the allied occupation of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, in

June in Her Spring and

England, Half English. He died of cancer in 1976. Since his death his best essays, fiction and journalism have been published in various collections.