"Smooth, beautifully paced, and effortlessly convincing."--New York Times Book ReviewBOOK I Sunny Ridge...

"The milk isn't poisoned today." Dotty Mrs.Lancaster seems to be rambling again. Or so Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are led to believe on their visit to Sunny Ridge Rest Home. But what are they to make of the old woman's implication that something is buried behind the fireplace in the sitting room?...

"The milk isn"t poisoned today." Dotty Mrs.Lancaster seems to be rambling again. Or so Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are led to believe on their visit to Sunny Ridge Rest Home. But what are they to make of the old woman"s implication that something is buried behind the fireplace in the sitting room? Or her painting of a secluded house that Tuppence finds strangely familiar? And what are they to do when Mrs. Lancaster disappears without a trace? They"re about to discover that something wicked has come to Sunny Ridge

BOOK I Sunny Ridge

1. Aunt Ada

2. Was It Your Poor Child?

3. A Funeral

4. Picture of a House

5. Disappearance of an Old Lady

6. Tuppence on the Trail

BOOK II The House on the Canal

7. The Friendly Witch

8. Sutton Chancellor

9. A Morning in Market Basing

BOOK III Missing---a Wife

10. A Conference--and After

11. Bond Street and Dr. Murray

12. Tommy Meets an Old Friend

13. Albert on Clues

BOOK IV "Here Is a Church and Here Is the Steeple,

Open the Doors and There Are the People"

14. Exercise in Thinking

15. Evening at the Vicarage

16. The Morning After

17. Mrs. Lane.aster