A chance meeting with his old friend, Detective-Inspector Pardoe, gives Gilbert Bevan an opportunity to seek some much-needed professional help on a baffling mystery. His flatmate Lawrence Heath has disappeared after an altercation with the husband of a woman with whom he has become romantically involved. When the husband in question, Alexander Secretan, turns up dead at a deserted cottage, Pardoe finds his pet case of disappearance transformed into a fully-fledged murder investigation. But what has happened to Lawrence Heath? And if the cottage was deserted, who opened the door to Secretan on that fateful evening?

Originally published in 1928, this enjoyable murder mystery will appeal to all fans of vintage British crime fiction.