Like The Secret Adversary,
the novel concentrates less on pure detection and is more a thriller of
the period. It follows the adventures of Anne Beddingfeld as she gets
involved in a world of diamond thieves, murderers and political intrigue
in this tale set in exotic Southern Africa. Colonel Race makes his first appearance in the novel; he later appears in Cards on the Table, Sparkling Cyanide, and Death on the Nile.
How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.
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