From a friend. She enjoyed it.


Lawrence Kingston can't resist the chance to investigage an unsolved death at renowned country estate Sturminster. A man's body was found her a strange monument whose inscription has never been deciphered. But the retired botany professor is less than delighted when it's revealed that he'll be working for his old enemy - and Sturminster's unscrupulous owner - Lord Francis Morley. Then a local historian, a man who claimed to have information implicating the Morley family, is poisoned. With both murders inextricably entwined with the Morley's sinister past, Lawrence finds treacherous secrets and suspects multiplying like aspidistras. But solving the ancient puzzle designed by three of the eighteenth century's most brillant minds is fast leading him to a legendary lost treasure, a ruthless killer - and a fate darker than any grave.

Great mystery, really like the character Kingston. Will pass on to another reader.
4-2018 My daughter and my mother have passed this amongst their friends and back to me.

I released this to the Hope House Little Free Library.