192 pp. A couple renting a house in Devon discover a dead body, and Superintendent Macdonald and Chief Inspector Reeves are called in to solve the case. The author, Edith Caroline Rivett, was a member of the Detection Club, which included Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and many other notable authors of the time. She wrote 48 mysteries as E.C.R Lorac, and another 23 as Carol Carnac, and is considered an important author of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
