The Diplomatic Corpse

Seven years earlier Liam Redmond was investigating a cell of enemy agents at large in London in the Boulting Brothers' 'High Treason'. This time he helps thwart embassy staff engaged in the considerably more prosaically mercenary business of drug smuggling.

Johnny Briggs (who died yesterday aged 85) is here reincarnated at the age of 22, while Robin Bailey plays a rare lead opposite cool blonde Susan Shaw as rival reporters (as usual being pressured by the usual tyrannical editor played by Charles Farrell) in this breezy little potboiler which despite a plot involving heroin, one character going under a train (off-camera of course) and us actually seeing the police photograph of the title corpse treats it all in a light-hearted fashion appropriate to it's tongue-in-cheek title.