Dr John Maddox fully deserved the vacation he had promised himself on the Riviera. But from the moment Julia Knight, with whom he was in love, unexpectedly joined him at a cafe table in Monte Carlo, his carefree mood was shattered. After calling in Inspector Blamignon of te Surete Nationle, he and Julia were caught up in a sequence of mysterious happenings that took them back to England and then across the Channel again to Avignon and Paris. Why had Julia's husband disappeared fr the villa where he worked as secretary to a famous novellist? What was the secret of the lonely farmhouse in the mountains behind the Cote d'Azur? And who planned the murder that brought Superintendant Meredith hurrying to a Sussex village? These are some of the questions that will keep you guessing to the last page of John Bude's ingenious new Anglo-French mystery novel.
