December 1959
Mr. Byrom is a comparative newcomer to the field. This is his second book - about a young doctor who, in telling a lie to safeguard an old childhood flame, involves himself in two murders, professional blackmail, and a marital crisis with his sensible and nice wife, and with these major incentives, does some private detection in the course of which he finds out rather more than he bargained for. This is racy, intelligent, essentially light-hearted writing, with a good variety of characters, and on the whole the author spins his web so intricately that there is no time to worry about one or two airy improbabilities.