This is the eleventh of the Josephine Tey mysteries, taking the real life crime writer into imagined settings to solve crimes of passion. Each one is wonderfully atmospheric of the 1930s and boast evocative settings such as Portmeirion in Wales, Charleston farmhouse in Sussex, the West End theatre, the Cornish coast and the Red Barn Murders in Polstead, Suffolk.

Each book stands alone and this time Josephine has crossed the Atlantic on the Queen Mary to join her partner who is working as an assistant to the great film director, Alfred Hitchcock as he seeks to complete the final scenes of his film of Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

As always, Josephine becomes involved in a mysterious death and, working with her old friend, detective Archie Penrose, she seeks to find the answers on both sides of the Atlantic.

It's a fabulous novel. Just loved it! Of course having the links with Daphne du Maurier and 'Rebecca' and the film set with Alfred Hitchcock, how could it fail to delight and intrigue. Wonderful!