Publisher's Synopsis
Majorcan Inspector Enrique Alvarez is called out to investigate the seemingly routine accidental death of Englishman Jasper Vickers, but all is not as straightforward as it seems. The assumption that Vickers fell from his balustrade in a drunken stupor does not explain the strips of missing hair on his wrists, the two horizontal cuts on his neck or the swelling of his lips. Despite being made to hand the case over to the slick, suave Inspector Pocavi, Alvarez remains determined to solve the case in the hope that his imaginative approach might win the day.
