Having flown from justice in South Africa, George William Swanston thought he'd got away with the illicit diamond-trading that has enabled him to set up home comfortably in England. Even when an old colleague, Oliver Hart, visits his house in Hampstead to threaten exposure, the man's fortuitous death shortly afterwards means that Swanston's safety is miraculously assured. Or so he thinks. For Hart has planned one final, deadly revenge - from beyond the grave.
Is Hart really dead? And if not Hart, then who was blackmailing Swanston when he met his end? Surveying Swanston's bloody remains, Inspector Jimmy Budd of Scotland Yard knows that this will be his most baffling case yet...
Originally published in 1938, this is a classic British murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.
Is Hart really dead? And if not Hart, then who was blackmailing Swanston when he met his end? Surveying Swanston's bloody remains, Inspector Jimmy Budd of Scotland Yard knows that this will be his most baffling case yet...
Originally published in 1938, this is a classic British murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.
