Tim Bedford is an artist. He loves the colour and smell of exotic places, and captures their shades in gouache. But when Bedford is despatched to Peru in search of Joe Farne, he finds himself cast as Private Detective. For besides his lost friend, the painter uncovers an unfinished letter, a beautiful woman's advances, and a strange hornet’s nest of conspiracy and intrigue...
► Vivid, fast-moving, crisp as an air ticket to a rare and unlikely destination, the book vibrates with characters, incidents and, above all, places, hurling the reader and hero from a hospital bedside in Cambridge to New York, to Peru, to Southern Chile, to the Queensland outback . ◄ SUNDAY TIMES
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Front cover photograph by Bob Elsdale
First published in 1961 by Heinemann
Full title: Saturn Over the Water: An Account of his Adventures in London, South America and Australia by Tim Bedford, Painter; Edited – With some Preliminary and Concluding Remarks – by Henry Sulgrave; And Here Presented to the Reading Public