Simon Fawcett, handsome, charming and clever, is also mean, elusive and somehow strange. When Penelope Dane falls in love with him he tells her he is permanently in love with a married woman. Into this uneasy triangie of love and rejection epters blackmail, murder and madness—to bring to a superb climax an ambitious, intelligent and skilfully plotted crime novel by one of the master practi-tioners.
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