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Book SynopsisAlbert Campion travels to Dorset as he attempts to get to the bottom of a series of shocking events connected to a TV adaptation of one of Evadne Childe''s famous novels.
Ripley''s brilliant inventiveness demonstrates that golden age characters and tropes can still work for contemporary fair-play fans- Publishers Weekly Starred Review
London, 1972. The Evadne Childe Society has gathered in honour of what would have been the author''s eighty-second birthday, and Albert Campion is there as a reluctant guest speaker and ceremonial birthday cake cutter.
But Campion''s oratory skills aren''t the only thing in demand. A TV remake of a twenty-year-old film adaptation of one of Evadne''s classic novels, The Moving Mosaic, has been derailed by someone attempting to murder the leading man - the latest in a series of increasingly disturbing incidents - and the society wants Campion to investigate. Who is determined to
