Situation Vacant TPB

Trade paperback. Mr. Green was seriously put out when his daughter Iris never returned from Mrs. Whyttington’s where she did part-time secretarial work. Who was to get his tea? But Iris would never get him a meal again, nor give reluctant help behind the counter in her father’s chemists shop, for Iris was dead. Her body is found floating in a sluice not far from her employer’s house. “Accidental death” is the official verdict at the inquest. But when three months later Iris’s successor as secretary to Mrs. Whyttington is found dead in most suspicious circumstances, and once again the situation becomes vacant, things begin to take on rather a different complexion and Scotland Yard is called in. It needs all Inspector Arnold’s talent for patient, plodding inquiry, assisted by the lively imagination and brilliant powers of deduction of his friend Desmond Merrion, to solve a mystery that must surely be one of the most ingenious that Miles Burton has ever evolved.