Takoe zaputannoe delo. Kogda konets blizok - Dunkan Frensis

The whole life of the artist Adrian Carthallow was a series of scandals - and even his death was scandalous. Adrian was shot at point-blank range, and his beautiful wife Helen - the only one who was with him at the time of the tragedy in a secluded mansion on a rock - she confessed to the murder ... It would seem that everything is clear - a typical bohemian bloody drama. However, the provincial policeman Penross, leading the case, something confused. What - he does not understand and himself, and then comes to the aid of Mordekai Tremayne ... The most interesting chess game of Mordekai Tremein and Inspector Boyce is interrupted by a report of a mysterious murder committed in the vicinity of the resort of Bridgeton. In this crime, everything is strange: the fact that the murdered - a local doctor - for some reason was in an abandoned old house, and that in his bag was found a revolver. Maybe the doctor had enemies? But who and what is their motive? In search of answers Tremayne and Boyce have to shake out from the closets of the city inhabitants a lot of skeletons ...