![]() (may contain spoilers - click on expand to read) ![]() Anne picks up a note which had come from the victim's pocket, and follows the trail from London, aboard ship, to Africa, finally a lost island, tracking stolen diamonds. There she witnesses an accident, and a mysterious man who attends the victim claiming to be a doctor. Orphan Anne Beddingfeld leaves her home when her father dies and heads for London in search of adventure. Colonel Race makes his first appearance in the novel he later appears in Cards on the Table, Sparkling Cyanide, and Death on the Nile. It follows the adventures of Anne Beddingfeld as she gets involved in a world of diamond thieves, murderers and political intrigue in this tale set in exotic Southern Africa. Like The Secret Adversary, the novel concentrates less on pure detection, and is more a thriller of the period. ![]() ![]()
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