It features a closed circle of suspects as was popular in the genre of the decade as well as elements of police procedural in the style of the Inspector French novels.

in 2016, it was reissued by the British Library Publishing as part of a group of republished crime novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

[3] In the genteel Regency Square in the spa town of Cheltenham, one of the residents is shot dead with an arrow in the back of his head.

He gains permission from his superiors at the Sussex Constabulary to stay and work with the local force to sole the case.

Further strands come together when a sheep is found dead in nearby Winchcombe with an arrow protruding from its body and a raid on an illegal gambling club in the suburb of Charlton Kings throws thresh light on one of the principal suspects.