A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's 1930s novels.
The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim.
But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene.
But someone else got there first...
- ISBN10 0312963610
- ISBN13 9780312963613
- Publish Date 15 October 1997 (first published 1 January 1938)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 March 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English