Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages in good condition. Front cover showing minimum wear next to spine. 188 pages. Published by Keyhole Crime, 1981. ISBN 0263736822.

Charged with protecting the personal safety of an American girl, archaeologist David Meynell decides a canal riverboat on England's inland waterways is an ideal place to hide her. With his wife, he sails the boat along drought-shrunken canals until they find a delightful mooring beside historic Tongstone Priory. The last thing they expected to stumble across is the body of a former secret service agent, Gerald Garland.

As the death roll mounts and the mystery deepens, Meynell's suspicions lead him to investigate the dead man's beautiful widow, a hostile ex-mercenary and a private railway buff before bizarre reality erupts into a classic shoot-out finale.