Receiving a series of threatening anonymous letters, artist James Garrow calls in private detective David Marchant to investigate. Feeling himself unassailable, and more annoyed than worried, Garrow doesn't truly believe that his life is in danger, despite the writer's threats. But Garrow's hubris is misplaced and he is soon found murdered in his own study. When Marchant arrives at the house, he discovers a family steeped in secrets. But who committed the murder? The dead man's second wife? His put-upon daughter? His bullied secretary? Or someone from Garrow's shady and disreputable past?
Originally published in 1937, this is Max Dalman's debut crime novel a vintage murder mystery in which no one escapes suspicion.