When wealthy businessman Matthew Crake is killed by a Mills bomb planted in the study of his North-country home, all the evidence points to Crake's nephew, Richard Senhouse, who has been missing since the night of the murder. Senhouse also happens to be engaged to the daughter of the Chief Constable, Colonel Esdale. Reluctant to prosecute his prospective son-in-law, Esdale calls upon his old friend Sir William Burrill, late of the Yard, to lend a hand - and it is not long before the baronet uncovers a fiendish conspiracy with origins deep in the dead man's past...
Originally published in 1932, this is a classic British murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.
Originally published in 1932, this is a classic British murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.
