"The Friends Of Billy Hudnut" is Thomas Swan's fourth novel, a departure from his popular art crime series featuring Scotland Yard's Jack Oxby. "Billy" is set in September, 1936, a peaceful period when many Americans struggled to escape the hardships of the great depression, and worried over the news that Hitler had reoccupied the Rhineland. Eerily, whispers of war began growing louder. Several stories criss-cross; all about friends of Billy's mother...