Description:"The eighty-one-year-old Doctor of English Letters William Blow quite unexpectedly discovers his housekeeper, Mrs. Solihull, lying on her bedroom rug with her mouth open. For propriety's sake Bow calls in his seventy-nine-year-old friend, Professor Gideon Manciple, who astutely observes that she has a knife in her back. This unlikely pair shuffle off into an investigation that leaves a sinister collection of rogues and a Scotland Yard detective thoroughly baffled."--Page 4 of cover.