The novel is mainly about Dalziel, as Peter and Ellie Pascoe marry and go on honeymoon. Taking leave himself, Dalziel stumbles across a case of embezzlement and murder, which he solves with Pascoe's last minute assistance in the closing chapters.
Publication history
1975, London: Collins Crime Club ISBN0-00-231842-3, Pub date 7 July 1975, Hardback