Scotland Yard’s Richard Jury and his sidekick Melrose
Plant converge on a northern fishing village to sniff out
clues on a killer and his victim…
Stacked against the cliffs on the shore of the North Sea
and nearly hidden by fog, the town of Rackmoor seems a
fitting place for murder. But the stabbing death of a
costumed young woman has shocked the close-knit village.
When Richard Jury arrives on the scene, he’s pulled up
short by the fact that no one is sure who the victim is,
much less the killer. Her questionable ties to one of the
most wealthy and influential families in town send Jury and
the horse-shy Melrose Plant on a deadly hunt to track down
a very wily killer.
“Affectionately witty characterizations…give her writing
the Dickensian touch that makes it glow.”—The
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Warmth, humor, and great style…a thoroughly satisfying
plot…one of the smoothest, richest traditional English
mysteries ever to originate on this side of the
Atlantic.”—Kirkus Reviews
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