Bruce Attleton dazzled London’s literary scene with his first two novels but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress unforgiving of Bruce’s failure and the couple lead separate lives in their house at Regent’s Park. When Bruce is called away on a sudden trip to Paris he vanishes completely until his suitcase and passport are found in a sinister artist’s studio the Belfry in a crumbling house in Notting Hill and Inspector Macdonald must uncover Bruce’s secrets. This intricate mystery from a classic writer is set in a superbly evoked London of the 1930s.

Part of the British Library Crime Classics series.