When a scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house, two immediate matters confound amateur detective Philip Trent: why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? The newly widowed Mabel Manderson – ‘the lady in black’ – has a disarming effect on the refreshingly fallible and imaginative Trent, in this classic detective story that twists and turns as a result of the irresistible combination of ingenious deductions and misplaced assumptions. - ‘One of the three best detective stories ever written’ Agatha Christie. ‘It is the one detective story of the present century which I am certain will go down to posterity as a classic. It is a masterpiece’ Dorothy L Sayers
