Penguin reprint, published 1946.
Alastair Bing's guests gather around his dining table at Chaynings, a charming country manor. But one seat, belonging to the legendary explorer Everard Mountjoy, remains empty. When the other guests search the house, a body is discovered in a bath, drowned. The body is that of a woman, but could the corpse in fact be Mountjoy? A peculiar and sinister sequence of events has only just begun...
Condition grading: Fair. Creases to front cover. Light grubbiness to rear cover. Pencil number to front cover. Minor damage to spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin reprint, published 1946.
Alastair Bing's guests gather around his dining table at Chaynings, a charming country manor. But one seat, belonging to the legendary explorer Everard Mountjoy, remains empty. When the other guests search the house, a body is discovered in a bath, drowned. The body is that of a woman, but could the corpse in fact be Mountjoy? A peculiar and sinister sequence of events has only just begun...
Condition grading: Fair. Creases to front cover. Light grubbiness to rear cover. Pencil number to front cover. Minor damage to spine ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
