Bats in the Belfry

Bruce Attleton dazzled London?s literary scene with his first two novels but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress unforgiving of Bruce?s failure and the couple lead separate lives in their house at Regent?s Park. When Bruce is called away on a sudden trip to Paris he vanishes completely until his suitcase and passport are found in a sinister artist?s studio the Belfry in a crumbling house in Notting Hill and Inspector Macdonald must uncover Bruce?s secrets. This intricate mystery from a classic writer is set in a superbly evoked London of the 1930s.