"You needn't look impatient, sir. He'll be finished with you long before dinner.ˮ Who has murdered the beautiful Sonia Vorge in her bridal bed? Why is the sinisterly looped rope hanging from the oak-beam? And what has the ghost of Montage Hall to do with it all? These are the problems confronting Ludovic Travers, and he rapidly finds that there is much more in this than meets the eye--and that there are things even Superintendent Wharton...