内容简介：
When a retired local government officer is killed by a karate chop while strolling in a West Midlands park, the police drag their heels and suppress information. The dead man's sole relative, an Australian historian, arrives in Britain in response to a peculiar letter from her grandfather and consults the old man's solicitor, Chris Tyroll. The off-beat anarchist lawyer takes up her case and together they are sucked into a mystery which involves another killing, government agents, burglaries, frame-ups and fire bombs. . .