"What a beautiful word, darling," said Meg Hamilton."Embracery," she repeated in a thoughtful tone, and gave her companion a speculative look, so that he said hastily:
"It doesn't mean anything like that."
She didn't question his interpretation. "What does it mean then?"
Charming stage actress Meg Hamilton (Enter Certain Murderers) struts back into Antony Maitland's life again when her actor friend Jonathan Kellaway is arrested for the murder of his landlord. Meg insists that Jonathan is too good an actor to be guilty, but the state's case against him seems strong. Seemingly connected to the mystery is a woman's scandalous past suicide-or was that murder too? Antony faces off with his old arch-nemesis Superintendent Briggs (Bloody Instructions), who, it seems, will not rest until he imprisons Antony on a murder charge as well. The climax to this twisting tale sees not just Anthony put on the knife's edge of danger but his wife Jenny too.
This gripping courtroom drama from 1968 features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
