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Book SynopsisDetective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly beginning to adjust to a more relaxed way of life when Georgia finds a mysterious locket in their garden and unwittingly sets the couple on a collision course with a power-hungry movement aimed at overthrowing the government.
It will take all of Nigel''s brilliance and Georgia''s bravery if they are to infiltrate the order and unmask the conspirators.
Trade ReviewGeorgia Cavendish Strangeways is one of the most complex and likeable characters in the crime fiction of the so-called Golden Age -- Sara Paretsky * Guardian *
Nicholas Blake at the very top of his form * Woman’s Journal *
An extraordinarily well written and entertaining thriller * Saturday Review of Literature *
The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction -- Elizabeth Bowen
His plots are ingenious * Times Literary Supplement *
