In the early hours of the morning, the corpse of a young girl whom no one knows will be found in the library of the manor house. Where did she come from? How did she get to the library? And who, anyway, in that house could want her dead? The facts, appare
Mr. Shaitana collects snuffboxes, Egyptian antiquities and - assassins. Not convicted but murderers who were never caught or captured by the police. He invites Hercule Poirot to "see" the collection.
With an exquisite sense of detail, this book is also a fascinating portrait of Robert Graves himself, his muses and his literary and artistic following, as well as a study that reveals to us how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.