Beschreibung
Summer. 1930. The hottest day of the year. And Dr Bickleigh has murder in mind.<BR>A classic crime masterpiece from 'One of crime fiction's greatest innovators' Independent<BR><BR>'A fascinating insight into a troubled mind, and a gripping thriller' Guardian<BR><BR>On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annual, much-anticipated tennis party at the Bickleighs, although not everyone has much enthusiasm for the game.
The tennis party exists for other reasons - and charmingly mannered infidelity is now the most popular pastime in the small but exclusive Devonshire hamlet of Wyvern's Cross.<BR><BR>Which is why, in his own garden, the host, Dr Edmund Bickleigh, is desperately fighting to conceal the two things on his mind: a mounting passion for Gwynyfryd Rattery - and the certain conviction that he is going to kill his wife . . .
Angaben vom Händler.