The third instalment of the brilliant William Dougal series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London.
There's unfinished business between William Dougal and his widowed father. Part of it has to do with Celia Prentisse, William's ex-girlfriend. When her historian father is found drowned, it's declared suicide, but Celia remains unconvinced - not least because his abandoned clothes were found with a bottle of the wrong brand of gin and a slim volume of Schopenhauer's essays.
It's not much evidence, but it's enough to send her godfather, retired British intelligence officer Major Ted Dougal, and his son William off on a trail that leads to a 1930s arsenic poisoning and a still-classified World War I court martial . . .
- ISBN10 0575036648
- ISBN13 9780575036642
- Publish Date 23 May 1985 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 January 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English