Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

A cliff-top house, a body on the beach, a man who suspects his best friend...

When Doctor Terence Ambrose visits Gervase Blount at Four Corners he notices the body of a man low down on a cliff near the house. His enquiries into the man's death point suspicion at several people, particularly his old friend from Balliol Gervase Blount himself.

As he delves into the past a complicated web of intrigue is slowly exposed...