Death in the Desert: A classic English murder mystery

When a Cambridge undergraduate room is broken into, the police's firm belief is that it's mere petty theft.

But this is no ordinary student - Mike Rawlinson has recently hit the headlines for surviving a near-death experience in the Carminian desert. When poison is found in the burgled room, Colonel Peter Blair realises the two incidents might share a common villain.

Rawlinson has been working for a Carminian mining consortium, and Blair suspects there is more to their activities than meets t...