Description:A classic winter’s crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre.
Victor Harleston awoke with uncharacteristic optimism. Today he
would be rich at last. Half an hour later, he gulped down his breakfast
coffee and pitched to the floor, gasping and twitching. When the doctor
arrived, he recognised instantly that it was a fatal case of poisoning
and called in Scotland Yard.
Despite an almost complete absence
of clues, the circumstances were so suspicious that Inspector Hanslet
soon referred the evidence to his friend and mentor, Dr Lancelot
Priestley, whose deductions revealed a diabolically ingenious murder
that would require equally fiendish ingenuity to solve.