The honour of the Cuerpo is on the line as Inspector Alvarez is asked to cooperate with an English detective who wants to question an expatriate living in Mallorca, a man whose wife was brutally murdered as part of a plan to steal millions. The investigation is making no progress until a peeping tom reveals that things may not be quite as they seem.
Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and was educated at Southampton's School of Navigation. In 1943 he went to sea with the New Zealand Shipping Company and returned to England in 1949 where he was subsequently called to the Bar. He practiced law for a brief period before starting to write full time. His books have been published in many different countries and have been adapted for film, television, and radio. He and his wife live in Mallorca, and have two children.