''The most interesting of the great female writers of the Golden Age. This disarmingly low-key tale of a mysterious disappearance is the perfect introduction to her world'' VAL MCDERMID ''The definition of a classic, a real cut above. It hasn''t aged a day'' JOSEPH KNOX When Hollywood-star photographer Leslie Searle disappears from a remote English village, gifted inspector Alan Grant is called in to investigate. But what would bring such a successful individual to the village? And was his vanishing his own doing, or did something eerie occur at the hands of an unsuspected culprit?''Will leave you desperate to re-read'' SARAH HILARY ''Worth reading for its ingenious denouement''TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT