A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." The New York Times
Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidentsa Kang-Tse vase broken, a specially commissioned catalog burned, and now a painting slashedhas young Frances Ivory on edge. She suspects that the instigator is her stepsister's husband, Robert Madrigal, but there's not much she can do about it while her father is out of the country.