Hide My EyesFirst published by Chatto & Windus 1958This book is for Maud Hughes with love |
So whoever killed Matt Pillipson on that rainy night in London's theatreland must ensure that he was not spotted. When Polly Tassie, owner of a museum of curiosities, is offered a ride home in a taxi, she does not realize she is being deliberately removed from the scene.
Inspector Luke and the deceptively sharp-eyed Mr Campion make a bizarre but accurate connection that leads them along a mysterious chain of clues: that the two old people huddled on a bus as the murderer went to work were not in fact witnesses, but waxworks...
'The book's great, gripping virtue is its Dickensian love for London, and its Dickensian gusto: they give an extra dimension to a splendid thriller' - Spectator