A Crime Club selection, this intrguing tale has been reviewed as "...the very best whodunnit in many a day...Not to be missed." It starts with plans to bury deceased Great-uncle Frederick in the family vault on Beacon Hill. When the vault is opened, there's someone already there that no one could ever expect-the skeleton of a burlesque queen who disappeared thirty years ago! It's up to young Sarah Kelling to hold the shocked family together, and try to find out what happened. What she unravels is a complex murder plot that not only stretches into the past, but also has Sarah marked as a victim! - The third in a series of definitive edition of mysteries by America's Agatha Christie! - Second title in ibooks' Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn reissue program. - Over 1,000,000 Charlotte MacLeod novels have been sold worldwide. - Charlotte MacLeod is the American Mystery and Nero Wolfe Award-winning of the Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn and Professor Peter Shandy series of mysteries.
- ISBN10 0743434943
- ISBN13 9780743434942
- Publish Date 2 January 2002 (first published 1 January 1979)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 25 November 2006
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint ibooks Inc
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English