Publisher's Synopsis
When a statesman's mistress keeps a diary, that's bad. And when she decides to publish it, that's murder. Paul Temple was no historian, but Mr Alfred Kelby was, and it is Kelby who has been killed by someone who obviously wanted that diary very badly indeed. Temple started on the case with a fair amount of trepidation. And what had already seemed a complicated case ran further into the gloom of the past and helped to tumble some pretty important skeletons out of the cupboard of political intrigue.
