![]() ![]() A library patron - I deplore this tendency but must give the lady or gentleman credit for perceptivity– has scribbled on the cover, “Not good.” Not one of Travers’ better cases, more a thriller than a detective novel. Who was Rook? Why did he give the musical manuscript to Travers? What did the manuscript mean, particularly since it is not the piece Rook played for Travers? One of the several odd things about his death is that someone shaved him shortly after he died As might have been guessed, Rook turns up dead, maybe having been tortured and maybe having committed suicide. When Travers more or less satisfies Rook’s requirements, Rook gives him a musical manuscript with unclear instructions what to do with it. Claude Rook is looking for a man of “implicitly honourable confidence” who knows china and music and is quick-witted. US hardcover: Doubleday Doran/Crime Club, 1932.Īn odd request to Durangos, Limited, sends Ludovic Travers, newly appointed director, to Steyvenning, Sussex. Howard Baker, UK, hardcover reprint, 1970. ![]()
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