Stevenege, of the Scotland Yard Criminal Investigation Department, has just finisched a strenuous case and is taking a well-earned holiday in the historic little town of Alanschester, in Yorkshire, to pursue his favourite hobby of painiting. Miss Lansale watches him sketching one morning and offers to show him some interesting spots not generally known to the tourist. As they are walking throught a wood they come across the body of a murdered man. The police are summoned. It is discovered, too, that the famous Alanschester siege coins, for which an American millionaire has offered a large sum, have disappeared from the local museum. Was the murdered man the thief, and who murdered him? Stevenege is forced to lay down his brush and palette to solve the mystery. From J. S. Fletcher, one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age, a compelling mystery story rich in plot twists. An evergreen classic worth rediscovering.