A WATERSTONES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a cosy crime novel as you'll ever read'
JANICE HALLETT 'A masterful voice in the mystery world' S. J. BENNETT 1901. Gabriel Ward
KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London's most famous music hall star and
its most notorious tabloid newspaper but the Inner Temple remains as quiet and calm as ever.
Quiet that is until the mummified hand arrives in the post... While the hand's recipient
Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring is rightfully shaken Gabriel is filled with curiosity.
Who would want to send such a thing? And why? But as more parcels arrive - one with fatal
consequences - Gabriel realises that it is not Sir William who is the target but the Temple
itself. Someone is holding a grudge that has led to at least one death. It is up to Gabriel
and Constable Wright of the City of London Police to find out who before the body count gets
any higher. The game's afoot.
