Margaret Erskine

Septimus Finch, on a golfing holiday, runs straight into murder.

Septimus Finch is sent to investigate murder in a wealthy family.

Inspector Septimus Finch investiages a murder in a small country town.

After the death of her husband, beautiful Camilla Ommanney returned to Hammerford to start a new life — only to find herself followed constantly and wordlessly by John Marquis, the survivor of the accident that had left her a widow — a man to whom skilled surgeons had given a handsome, waxlike face, but who had completely lost his memory. Was he really the John Marquis Camilla had once loved, or was he, as she had terrifying reasons to believe, her husband, come back from the dead to drive her insane...? A cryptic message brings Inspector Septimus Finch to Hammerford, to tear the mask off a monstrous murderer, and to save the life and sanity of a tortured girl.

Grey and gloomy, the Towers, a vast Victorian mansion, was a most appropriate home for the eccentric Bonner family - and the perfect setting for murder. The mystery actually began when the beautiful and much-married Rose Bonner became suspicious that one of her late husbands was not as dead as she thought. But was it this ghost of a marriage past that gave old Aunt Agatha such a terrible shock on the eve of her seventy-fifth birthday - and then murdered her in her bed? The Bonner family felt that only Inspector Finch could catch the flesh-and-blood killer, and he quite agreed, for he had already dug up the crucial clue: a buried pair of size ten men's shoes.