内容简介：
The Decayed Gentlewoman, they had called her as children - an unregarded painting badly in need of cleaning. Later it vanished. But before that, Ginny and her mother had stopped coming to stay in Ardachoil. Colin never knew why. Now suddenly both the Decayed Gentlewoman and Ginny had reentered his life. After an urgent station announcement at King's Cross and an oddly frantic phone call, Dr Colin Locke, with his childhood emotions vividly re-awakened, found himself drawn into a maze of suspicions, theft, legal complexities and finally murder.