Murder pays no respect to rank...or the neighborhood. And so it happened that
young aristocrat Timothy Wycliffe was bludgeoned to death in his elegantly
furnished flat in Belgravia by a person or persons unknown. Unknown, in fact,
for 30 years.Then the dead man's friend Peter Proctor -- once a young man on his
way up in the diplomatic service, now a retired Member of Parliament -- seeks an
antidote to boredom by attempting to write his own memoirs. Unfortunately, they
seem to be creating more problems than he anticipated, and not just of the
writer's-block variety. Peter keeps getting sidetracked by speculations on
Timothy's death. The murder