Two bodies, their throats cut with brutal precision, lie in a waste of blood in the dingy vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. Dalgliesh arrives to begin his investigations.
- ISBN10 0571145701
- ISBN13 9780571145706
- Publish Date 20 October 1986 (first published 9 June 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 June 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 454
- Language English