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Marianne MacDonaldComing home one night to the flat above her antiquarian book shop, Dido Hoare stumbles across the unconscious body of old Tom Ashe, one of her more eccentric customers. Thirtysomething Dido would say that there are already more than enough complications in her life. It's hard enough to find a parking space these days, much less look after a pig-headed father, a business, and a new baby . . .
But from the moment Dido takes the old man to hospital, she is sucked deeper and deeper into his secret life. Why does Ashe vanish from the ward and then reappear to give her a piece of ancient jewellery? Does his return have something to do with the fact that he and Dido's father Barnabas, retired professor, had worked together in Signals Intelligence during the war?
Above all, who would want to murder this half-crazy old man?
With the help of her father and an unlikely guardian angel, Dido follows a trail of deceit which began half a century ago, where her own survival depends on finding out what kind of nightmare she has fallen into and what Tom Ashe's perilous treasure really is.
