They Don't Make Them Like That Any More

'Devoured at a sitting... racy, pungent and swift' The Sunday Times

'Number one thriller on my list... sexy and racy' Sunday Mirror

A car worth killing for. A secret buried since Berlin fell.

When the sharp-tongued proprietor of Aristo Autos is offered a rare 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K, he knows he has found the deal of a lifetime. Then his prospective buyer dies. The car’s elderly owner is found dead. And the Mercedes disappears.

Unwilling to surrender either his investment or his curiosity, the vintage-car dealer sets off in pursuit. With the enigmatic Sara Greatheart beside him and some exceedingly dangerous men close behind, the trail leads from a London mews through France and Spain to Geneva—and back to unfinished business from the final days of Nazi Germany.

Fast, funny and driven by James Leasor’s near-encyclopaedic knowledge of the world’s great motor cars, *They Don’t Make Them Like That Any More* is a classic European caper-thriller with a deadly mystery beneath the bonnet.

A note on this edition

This novel was first published in 1969. Its language, humour and attitudes—particularly concerning sex, gender, race and nationality—reflect the period in which it was written and may offend modern readers. They have been retained to preserve the original voice and historical character of the work.