Anthony Rolls

‘My friend Ellingham has persuaded me to reveal to the public the astounding features of the Reisby case. As a study in criminal aberration it is, he tells me, of particular interest, while in singularity of horror and in perversity of ingenious method it is probably unique.’ 1913. John Farringdale, with his cousin Eric Foster, visits the famous archaeologist Tolgen...

The characters are quite extraordinarily living... A most original and grimly farcical situation. - Dorothy L. Sayers Robert Arthur Kewdingham is an eccentric failure of a man. In middle age, he retreats into a private world, hunting for Roman artefacts and devoting himself to bizarre mystical beliefs. Robert's wife, Bertha, feels that there are few things more dreadful than a...