Peter Daventry, a young lawyer, receives instructions from a rich client to purchase three valuable artefacts once belonging to Mary, Queen of Scots. It's a singular request, with no limit on the money to be paid at the auction. But the day after Daventry inspects the items, they are stolen from the auction house and a security guard is found horribly murdered. The next morning, Daventry and his colleagues are startled to discover that the client, miles away at his country house, has alos been slain--in a room locked from the inside. Faced with such a dilemma, there's only one thing that can be done--call for Anthony Bathurst, detective extraordinaire.
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