![]() ![]() ![]() It is much more a thriller, with Ruritanian influences, and due to the number of elements in play is superior to “The Secret Adversary” and “The Man in the Brown Suit”. I had remembered this as being a traditional country house murder mystery, but it is nothing of the sort. ![]() 3 in Historic Homes of England) between the likely new king of Herzoslovakia and a British syndicate interested in negotiating oil concessions.Īnthony deals with various factions interested in the memoirs before locating Mrs Revel, and having assisted her with a temporary inconvenience, arrives at Chimneys just as someone is shot dead.ĭue to the sensitivity of the case, Superintendent Battle (a cut above Inspector Japp) is given control of the investigation, and whilst he doesn’t completely trust Anthony, he allows him his head to a certain extent and between them they manage to make everything turn out “all gas and gaiters”. Anthony Cade is entrusted by his friend Jimmy McGrath to deliver the memoirs of Count Stylptitch, former Prime Minister of Herzoslovakia, to a London publisher and to return some personal letters to a Virginia Revel.Īt the same time, George Lomax is arranging for a meeting to take place at Chimneys (No. ![]()
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