The Lamorna Wink

Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury returns—but not before sidekick Melrose Plant finds himself embroiled in a haunting case of murder past and present.

With his good friend Richard Jury on a fool’s errand in Northern Ireland, Melrose Plant tries, in vain, to escape his aunt and his Long Piddleton lethargy by fleeing to Cornwall. There, high on a rocky promontory overlooking the sea, he rents a house—one furnished with tragic memories. But his Cornwallian reveries are tempered by the local waiter, a cab driver and amateur magician. The industrious Johnny Wells seems unflappable, until his own beloved Aunt Chris disappears. Now, Plant is dragged into the disturbing pasts of everyone involved—and a murder mystery that only Richard Jury can solve.