SYNOPSIS
A MAN is poisoned in the world-famous Reading Room of the British Museum; another man plunges hundreds of feet, to drown in a reservoir on a Yorkshire Moor. What can he the logical connection between deaths so different, so widely separated ? John Rowland's new novel is, in essence, a reply to this question. Readers who have enjoyed the previous adventures of Inspector Shelley will welcome his return in this exciting story of one of the most curiously baffling cases which have ever faced Scotland Yard
|