By Peter Dickinson

In this gripping novel through CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the previous to unravel a secret

on the stylish English manor often called Snailwood, travelers come day-by-day to listen to decades-old gossip in regards to the moment spouse of the 6th earl. Zena used to be a impressive younger girl whose scandalous attractiveness has been dimmed neither by way of time nor by way of her strange loss of life. within the Thirties, Zena used to be the famous person of a infamous get together set whose contributors integrated playwrights, politicians, and Nazi sympathizers. They handed wild weekends at Snailwood, arguing approximately politics and ingesting till sunrise. on the middle in their events was once the manor’s brilliant tower clock. The clock stopped in the past, however the darkness of its legacy maintains to spread.
 
while a workman deals to mend the clock at no cost, the single ultimate survivor of the previous days is compelled to revisit her thoughts of Zena’s final mad occasion, whilst dying got here to Snailwood and Britain replaced forever.
 

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