In the village of Lavister Alastair Southery, locum to Dr Lathbury, discovers a fantastic set-up involving an assortment of astonishing characters. Dr Lathbury has become ill with the same unexplained disease that killed his partner, and the village is still agog with the recent murder of his eldest son Paul.
When the doctor dies, Southery sets out to prove his hunch that there is a connection between his death and the two previous ones.
- ISBN10 0002318695
- ISBN13 9780002318693
- Publish Date 29 October 1981 (first published April 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 January 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English