Scott Egerton

A cliff-top house, a body on the beach, a man who suspects his best friend...

Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

When Doctor Terence Ambrose visits Gervase Blount at Four Corners he notices the body of a man low down on a cliff near the house. His enquiries into the man''s death point suspicion at several people, particularly his old friend from Balliol Gervase Blount himself.

As he delves into the past a complicated web of intrigue is slowly exposed...