On the night of 9 March, the Reverend Thomas Baxter, Rector of Craylingham, is kidnapped at gunpoint and replaced with an impostor so convincing that he even manages to fool the Reverend's niece Aline Temple. Newly returned from Malaya, Stanton Dale has also arrived at Craylingham to stay at the Manor with his good friend, Sir John Crayling. As Dale begins to suspect that all is not well down at the Rectory, he faces a race against time to convince Scotland Yard - before it is too late...

Originally published in 1935, this is an entertaining British crime thriller from the golden age of detection!