Glittering Prizes: An Anthony Bathurst Mystery

"It has been evident to me for some time that this country, the Empire and all that you and I hold dear are in deadly peril."

Mrs. Warren Clinton, the American millionaire, summons nine talented individuals to the Royal Sceptre Hotel. Her stated purpose-to save the British Empire. Through a series of fiendish intellectual tests, she whittles the numbers down to two-only for the chosen pair to be found murdered, and for Mrs. Clinton to have vanished without trace.

Faced with the possibility of...