Description:When a series of murders performed by a killer
with a peculiarly thin blade take place in London, Detective
Superintendent Bill Barry is recalled from retirement. Doctors,
psychologists, lawyers and politicians join in the hunt, but the biggest
crime is yet to come. First published as a six-part serial in "The
Sunday Times" newspaper in 1975, readers were encouraged to send in
their own solutions to the mystery after episode five. For the first
time, the winning entry is published here in book form, together with
Amis' own denouement. Kingsley Amis is also the author of "Jake's
Thing", "Stanley and the Woman", "The Old Devils" and "Difficulties with
Girls".