414pp, 550g. Reader's initial and top edge clipped front endpaper. Friendless and alone after his wife dies under suspicious circumstances, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox searches desperately for the illegitimate granddaughter who could be the only answer to the problems plaguing his name and his life. He is receiving threatening telephone calls at night and a group of travellers, under the sway of their leader, Fox Evil, has set up camp in the woods near his house.