Sweet confusion on the princes’ Islands: An Istanbul Mystery

Ed Wilkie, a somewhat naïve young American who comes to Istanbul to teach at a private boys school on the Princes Islands, meets unexpected complications. He and his bull terrier, Starleen, are plunged into an increasingly comic—and sometimes threatening—series of intertwining plots involving amorous older women, a stuttering spy, hookers, diplomats, policemen, and a sweet but determined young Turkish woman named Elif.

Ed Wilkie, a somewhat naïve young American who comes to Istanbul to teach at a private boys school on the Princes Islands, meets unexpected complications. He and his bull terrier, Starleen, are plunged into an increasingly comic—and sometimes threatening—series of intertwining plots involving amorous older women, a stuttering spy, hookers, diplomats, policemen, and a sweet but determined young Turkish woman named Elif.