内容简介：
When the dead body of well-known actress Norma Rice is discovered in a railway carriage, it turns out that her demise is part of a series of killings dubbed the Rex murders. There seems to be only one connection between the otherwise random deaths: at each scene the letters R-E-X are written. Faced with escalating media frenzy, Scotland Yard is forced to send for Paul Temple - again But the popular novelist and private investigator is preoccupied by the looming deadline of his latest novel and he has promised wife Steve that he will not, in any circumstances, take on a new case...