Author(s): Lorac, E.C.R., Edwards, Martin,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 10/08/2020,
Pagination: 240 pages,
Series: British Library Crime Classics,
Imprint: British Library Publishing,
Published By: British Library Publishing,
Book Classification: British Library Crime Classics, Classic crime, Second World War fiction
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780712353526

Description:
On a dismally foggy night in Hampstead, London, a curious party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout. A civil servant and a government scientist are matching wits in a game of chess, while an artist paints the portrait of his characterful sitter, bedecked in Cardinal's robes at the other end of the room. In the kitchen, the artist's sister is hosting the charlady of the miser next door.

When the brutal murder of said miser is discovered by his Canadian infantryman nephew, it's not long before Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard is at the scene, faced with perplexing alibis and with the fate of the young soldier in his hands.