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When successful London businessman Lionel Ballantine is found strangled in the smoking room of a house in the sedate Daylesford Gardens district, Scotland Yard's Inspector Mallett is called in to investigate. The case unravels in a quiet London neighbourhood, drawing Mallett into a web of intrigue and suspicion surrounding the victim’s personal and professional circles.
First publish date: 1955
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Cyril Hare
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