Book Description
Finally back in print-a classic Richard Jury novel from "one of the established masters of the genre" (Newsweek).

Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury takes on an elusive strangler in a case of family secrets-and family lies...

"Witty...stylishly crafted." (The Washington Post)

"[Grimes] gets our immediate attention [and] holds it...with something more than mere suspense." (The New Yorker)

"A superior writer." (The New York Times Book Review)

FROM OUR EDITORS

New Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is convinced it's more than coincidence when two beautiful young women are found strangled to death with their own scarves -- one in Devon, the second outside a fashionable Mayfair pub. Both women were as strikingly similar in life as they were in death. Neither had enemies that Jury can find. Now, somewhere in the night, a killer is biding his time, beckoning Jury and Devon's local divisional commander, Brian Macalvie, down an elusive trail of tragic family secrets and even more fatal lies....

FROM THE PUBLISHER