The sad variety Author Surname:Blake Emily asks missing persons investigator

Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them

each of whom has something to hide about the night of her death - find themselves in an elaborate game of cat and mouse as they race to uncover what happened to her

a woman is murdered with horrific brutality: crude abuse scrawled above her bloodied bed

Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey

in his second-best coat

The sad variety Author Surname:Blake Emily asks missing persons investigatorThe government's security department have asked private detective Nigel Strangeways to keep a discreet eye on Professor Alfred Wagley, a research scientist who is spending the Christmas holidays in the South West of England. But someone else is also very interested in the professor and his work.