E. R. Punshon labored for years in Canada and America before settling to write some seventy detective novels — and earned the real admiration of Dorothy L. Sayers. A young man takes a post at a lonely house called Bittermeads under a false name, hunting a man who has vanished, and finds a suspicious packing case, a girl who will not explain herself, and a household where everyone is watching everyone else. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 32 full-page color plates.