Baroness P. D. James Orden de los libros (cronológico)

La enorme y respetable casa de los Maxie, en la campiña inglesa, parecía el lugar ideal para que la joven Sally Jupp pudiera trabajar como ama de llaves y criar a su hijo, pero un horrible crimen acabaría pronto con sus ilusiones. Afortunadamente, el superintendente Adam Dalgliesh se encargaría del caso...

Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer--but no murder from his imagination could equal the ghastliness of his own death. When his grotesquely mutilated corpse is found in a drifting dinghy, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre neighbours: the cruel and cynical drama critic, the celebrated recluse, the rakish young heir, the terrified woman waiting for her killer in a lonely house... It is up to Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh and his extraordinary aunt to discover the shocking truth about Seton's past--before the plot takes another murderous turn.