Publisher's Synopsis
Arthur Waldegrave is the heir to a vast fortune. But when he perishes in a fire, Detective Inspector Saul Jackson and his sergeant, Herbert Bottomley, establish that he was murdered with cyanide. Who would gain from Arthur's death? His brother Lance, in debt and pursued by the girl he's betrayed? Or architect Jeremy Beecham? Arthur had bitterly opposed his engagement to Margaret Waldegrave. Then, following a second murder, Jackson discovers the mysterious Major Pomeroy, owner of the Calton Papers. Jackson brings his investigation to a devastating and unsuspected climax when the papers reveal the underlying motive for Arthur Waldegrave's death...
