Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages showing minimal wear. Pages showing hardly any age discolouration. 443 pages. Published by Granada Publishing, 1982. ISBN 0586050302.

Energetic, warm, genial, the Reverend Godfrey Knurr is a man of infinite charm, a simple but honest man of the cloth. But mention his name in the presence of old friends or his former wife, and watch the colour drain form their faces in horrified fury.

Godfrey Knurr is a ruthless con man. It takes all of Chief Investigator Joshua Bigg’s ingenuity to ferret out the link between this cool and conscienceless killer and the two cases assigned to him by his employer, a prestigious law firm. Beginning with one client’s disappearance and another’s apparent suicide, Bigg digs deeply into unpromising background evidence and uncovers a shocking history of human passions corrupted by lust for money and power.