Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room, Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer.
- ISBN10 0141015535
- ISBN13 9780141015538
- Publish Date 26 August 2004 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 June 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 560
- Language English