At the time of Margery Allingham's 1966 passing, another Albert Campion adventure was in the offing, and it is completed here by Mike Ripley. When Campion visits his niece in the idyllic English village of Lindsay Carfax, he doesn't expect trouble. Then a missing school teacher reappears after nine days, and Campion is involved in a car crash that might not have been an accident—it seems his holiday is over, and he will need to confront the family crime syndicate that has controlled this village for generations.