When William Spence is killed by a roof-fall at a fashionable London shopping arcade, it looks like an accident. But eccentric old Mrs Grundling, who was sitting next to Spence at the time, isn't so sure. It is left to Jerry Hay, and Spence's niece Mary to find out the truth. Would it even be possible to kill a man in this haphazard way? And could there really be a link with the motorist found dead in a Berkshire lane, after apparently colliding with an owl?
Originally published in 1931, this is a classic murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction. Writing pseudonymously as Walter Proudfoot, its author is John Haslette Vahey, who also wrote as Vernon Loder.