Another Lifeline Bookfair treasure!
In his latest thriller, George Bellairs takes us back to the lovely and haunting Isle of Man.
It is holiday time in Douglas, and a carnival crowd engulfs a solitary, elderly man, who is peacefully gazing out to sea. When the procession passes, the old man quietly dies. He is found to have a knife wound in his back. He is, at first, merely an anonymous victim, known casually to a few locals as Uncle Fred. Superintendent Littlejohn, called to visit his old friend the Rev. Caesar Kinrade, Archdeacon of Man, on his way home from a police conference in Dublin, is asked by his comrade Inspector Knell, of the Manx C.I.D., to give him a hand in the case, unofficially.
As the inquiry progresses, Uncle Fred is virtually brought to life again by Littlejohn. The lost years of his past are found again, his friends and his foes appear, the events leading up to his strange death fall in line and, gradually, the picture of the murderer appears.
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