On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress a journalist an artist and a mystery novelist. The unlucky thirteenth is John Foss injured at the local train station and brought to the house to recuperate - but John is nursing a secret of his own. Soon events take a sinister turn when a painting is mutilated a dog stabbed and a man strangled. Death strikes more than one of the house guests and the police are called. Detective-Inspector Kendall's skills are tested to the utmost as he tries to uncover the hidden past of everyone at Bragley Court.

Part of the British Library Crime Classics series.