A respectable bookseller is found bludgeoned and strangled and it's up to Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to find out why . . .
When Matthew Glynn is murdered, Wycliffe is mystified. Why would anyone want to kill him? But a look at Glynn's background reveals tension within the family. Alfred Glynn, an eccentric recluse, has born a grudge against his brother for years. The other brother, Maurice, argued bitterly with Matthew over the sale of family land. His sister Sara is caught out in several crucial lies to the police. Add to this a discontented son, the discovery of valuable documents in the bookseller's safe, and the mysterious, still unexplained disappearance of Matthew's wife years earlier, and Wycliffe faces one of his most impenetrable cases yet.
And then another Glynn dies . . .
- ISBN10 0552141097
- ISBN13 9780552141093
- Publish Date 22 July 1993 (first published 1 April 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Corgi
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English