Dimensions
111 x 179 x 29mm
As Melrose Pant sits in a Cornish tearoom, he is served by remarkable young Johnny Wells - waiter, cab-driver and amateur magician. Melrose is attempting to escape his Long Piddleton lethargy by renting Seabourne house, positioned high on a promontory overlooking the sea. It looks like the set of a 40s or 50s romantic film, but Melrose is unprepared for the onslaught of memories it triggers. And in examining his own past, he is caught up in the tragic past of its owners, the Bletchley family.
With Richard Jury sent on a fool's errand to Northern Ireland, Melrose turns to Brian Macalvie of the Devon and Cornwall police for help when Johnny's aunt disappears. Macalvie is conducting his own investigation into the murder of a woman on a footpath near Lamorna Cove, and in Lamorna's single pub, the "Wink", he reveals to Melrose a side of himself he'd rather stay buried up in Scotland.
Each of their pasts - Macalvie's, Plant's and the Bletchleys' - converge at the end when Richard Jury comes to help set things to rights.
