In 2014 it was reissued by the British Library Publishing as part of a group of republished crime novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Shortly after leaving for a holiday in Wales, John Rother's car and bloodied hat are discovered on a road a few miles away from the South Downs farmhouse where he lives.

This seems even more to be the case when bones begin turning up in limestone deliveries originating from the kiln close to the Rother farmhouse.

Only a few odd threads seem to prevent Meredith from tying up the case, such as a figure seen in a cloak hurrying away from the scene of the supposed murder.

When William is found dead having tumbled off a cliff, the suicide note he leaves behind appears to be a clear confession of his murder.