Plongez dans une captivante série de mystère se déroulant dans le Londres atmosphérique. Suivez les enquêtes complexes d'un écrivain de romans policiers renommé et de sa brillante assistante d'agent littéraire. Ensemble, ils démêlent des affaires compliquées, alliant le travail de détective classique à des énigmes intellectuelles. Cette série offre un voyage fascinant dans un monde où les secrets se cachent à chaque coin de rue.
July, 1955. Fellow writer Alastair Endicott has requested Donald Langham's help in discovering what happened to his father Edward, who has disappeared without a trace from inside his locked study. The elder Endicott had been researching a biography of the notorious Satanist Vivien Stafford. Could there be a connection to his disappearance?
December, 1955. Donald Langham is staying at a remote castle in the Scottish Highlands, a guest of his old commanding officer Major Cartwright. Shortly after Donald's arrival, one of his fellow guests is murdered - and the hunt is on to find a ruthless killer before he - or she - strikes again.
1956. Langham's client is moviestar Suzie Reynard and her lover has been receiving threats. Langham finds the film set awash with resentment and a body is found in the director's trailer. Someone confesses to the murder but Langham is not convinced. He delves into the past and another murder that took place more than twenty years before.
When Langham's literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917, nearly 40 years before--and why has it had such a devastating effect?fect?
Shortly after Lord Elsmere re-insures his favourite painting for a hefty price, it is stolen and with no sign of a break-in. Elsmere is known to be struggling financially, so is it a staged theft or has one of his guests taken it? Seething animosities, jealousy, secrets and deception are all found once PIs Langham and Ralph Ryland take on the case.