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"Two violent deaths shatter the tranquillity of a quiet residential corner in the heart of London and Chief Superintendant Wycliffe must sort through the clues." --

"What Chief Superintendent Wycliffe had hoped would be a quiet Christmas turns out to be very much the opposite with the disappearance of his host's nephew's fiancee and the mysterious death of her parents." --

In Cornwall, Superintendent Wycliffe investigates the murder of a bookseller whose testimony convicted another man of murder. Suspicion centers on the convicted man's daughter who worked in the bookshop, but Wycliffe thinks that is too facile.