Inspector Proby's ChristmasA young woman is found savagely murdered in Hampton and Detective Inspector Jim Proby is assigned to the case. As he tries to unmask the killer, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of death. And parallel with the difficulties faced in the hunt is the growing threat to his marriage.

All that stands between total chaos and the return of the dark gods are Duke Modeset (who doesn't like the place anyway)

The corpse was still in fancy dress and hardly a single guest had registered under their genuine name

Who was the Prince

This fast-moving thriller

I devoured this book' Lisa Taddeo*********If most men say they’re one of the good guys

sold at 2/6d for almost 30 years

The family is devastated by Juliet's conviction for art theft

and without comparison

exhibits the classic symptoms of an autistic child

a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism

are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello

actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old