Athena

Morrow - a clerkish, middle-aged type encumbered with a chain-smoking dying aunt and a considerable talent for wallowing - is at a loose end when, he is beckoned up the stairs of an empty Dublin house. There is an offer of dubious work, and he soon becomes caught up in a conspiracy to authenticate a series of fake paintings.

Morrow - a clerkish, middle-aged type encumbered with a chain-smoking dying aunt and a considerable talent for wallowing - is at a loose end when, he is beckoned up the stairs of an empty Dublin house. There is an offer of dubious work, and he soon becomes caught up in a conspiracy to authenticate a series of fake paintings.