Meg O'Hara had married a charming, handsome Irishma - who was also a spy - and she had no one to blame but herself when it ddn't wor out. But the same day she asked Robin for a divorce, he disappeared. The foreign office insisted he was dead. So who had left her the newspaper with the letters "I AM ALIVE" circled in red, the maple leaf with ALIVE in pinpricks .. and all the other frightening messages that made her both hope and fear that Robin had survived. Only her old friend Bill Cloverdale believed he. He said he'd help get to the bottom of the mystery, not knowing that his and Meg's investigation was indeed spiralig down ... right into the very depths of a shadowy world of secrets and deception, where knowing too much was ... murder!
From what I can see on Fantastic Fiction, this is the fifth book Patricia Wentworth wrote. It was published in 1936. So, she may not have gotten into her stride, although she had written her first "Midd Silver" book before this one. I didn't enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed all her others, and I've read dozens of her books.
Still, it had a very unusual ending I wasn't quite prepared for.
Still, it had a very unusual ending I wasn't quite prepared for.
