Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this "vivid and witty" British mystery ( The New York Times). One of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction's Four Queens of Crime "Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered."—P.D. James Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm—cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise—and all rumors hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier. Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion—but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever? "The best of mystery writers."— The New Yorker "Margery Allingham was one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel."—Alexander McCall Smith "Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever."—Sara Paretsky
