出版商Ramble House再版此書時的簡介如下：
Rupert Penny wrote this longer-than-usual impossible mystery in 1937. It's full of maps, charts and highly formatted text, and Ramble House is proud to present it as a facsimile book. Its 330 pages will transport you to the English countryside of the mid-30s as Inspector Beale and his ever-present friend Tony Purdon tackle the murder of a clergyman who had the misfortune of having his head bashed in by person or persons unknown.
The author states that by the time you read the first 33 chapters you will have all the information you need to name the murderer and reconstruct the crime. Are you up to the challenge?
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作者介紹：魯伯特·潘尼（1909—1970）本名Ernest Basil Charles Thornett，出生于英國康沃爾。第二次大戰(zhàn)期間他在英國政府的密碼學(xué)校工作，戰(zhàn)后仍然在政府的通信總部（GCHQ）工作。他從1936年到1941年間發(fā)表了八部偵探小說，都以解謎為特色，有的還插入了類似埃勒里·奎因的挑戰(zhàn)讀者，頗具游戲精神。
