"It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners and things start to go horribly wrong. With a cosy fluency of wit, Mortimer charms us into his urbane tangle of clues." - Mail on Sunday. Gilt embossed, bound in fine genuine leather in blue, red and gold checkerboard design, 22kt gold-stamped spine accents, distinctive raised spine hubs, specially milled acid-neutral paper, Smyth-sewn pages, gilded page edges. Permanent satin ribbon page-marker. 1998, SIGNED by the author.
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