The Case Of The Grand Alliance

Woman falls from window of flat. Doctor says killed instantly.Well thought Ludovic Travers as he set the newspaper aside that finally put a period to a highly unsuccessful case. The woman a Mrs. Strand had seemed a bit deranged when she came to him for help in locating some missing friends but he quest led to a dead end.So Travers turns to the infinitely more challenging new mystery of the missing diamonds-£50 000 of them stolen from an impregnable safe in a distinguished London jeweller's and perfect if worthless replicas substituted. He meets some charming people who may or may not be thieves. And he finds himself up against not only an unholy threesome-the grand alliance-but also a merciless blackmailer and a murderer.Oddly enough the unfinished business of Mrs. Strand provides the key to this almost unfathomable mystery-and Christopher Bush's thousands of admirers will find here his hallmarks of fine craftsmanship: believa