Summary
"In the common room of St. Thomas's College, Oxford the dons are enjoying after-dinner port and cigars and the companionship of Ernst Brendel, a Viennese lawyer visiting the College. The calm is soon shattered when a brilliant but unpopular tutor is found shot to death in Dean Hargreaves' lodgings. In the absence of clues and a motive, the local constabulary calls in Inspector Cotter of Scotland Yard. Even he can't make headway on the crime. It remains for the visiting Brendel, an amateur student of murder and detection, to shed some light on the case."--Publisher description.
