Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he suspects a simple domestic intrigue - and begins to uncover a web of romantic entanglements
Further additions to the highly successful "British Library Crime Classics". Freeman Wills Croft (1879-1957) was a master of the ingeniously plotted detective novel, and these novels show him at the height of his powers.