Roger Norton Vane is dead.
Chaos ensues and while trying to complete th.
After years of wild speculation and fruitless searches, finally his death is to be made official and somebody will inherit his accumulated wealth.
Ethelred Tressider, crime writer and Vane\'s biographer, attends the memorial service, but little does he expect to find himself talking to Vane himself, apparently returned from the dead.
Twenty years ago he went for a walk in the Thai jungle with his partner and never returned.
Roger Norton Vane is dead