One of the century's great innovators in British crime fiction offers more humor with a twist of bitter lemon (Library Journal) in a tale in which Scotland Yard Detective Dover is a victim of kidnappers, who demand not only a stout ransom, but the release of two prisoners--a multiple bigamist and a nymphomaniacal shoplifter.
- ISBN10 0881502456
- ISBN13 9780881502459
- Publish Date 3 January 1997 (first published 20 January 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English