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Adam Dalgliesh assumes a complicated murder in the world of Birmingham book-publishing in this mystery in one of our best novelists. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted by a problem of dense difficulty. A murder has had devote the workplaces of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house situated in a remarkable mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The target is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who'd promised to displace the company's prospects. Etienne was obviously a guy with enemies—a discarded mistress, an embarrassed and rejected writer, and edgy co-workers, among who evidently murdered himself a short while earlier.