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The tranquil village of Prior's Umborne is disrupted by a spate of poison-pen letters, each targeting a different resident. Suspicion falls on several colorful characters: the nervous Rosebay Chantmerle, her embattled sister Celandine, the reclusive Stanford Blick, his brother Charles, the gossiping Daniel Durdle, and the austere financier Sir Archibald Blick. When Archibald is found dead at the cliffside of the dreaded hollow, the urgency escalates. Nigel Strangeways is hired to unravel the tangled motives and connections, navigating the village's hidden tensions and eerie secrets to identify the true sender before another tragedy unfolds.
First publish date: 1953
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Nicholas Blake
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