Antony Maitland #20 Responding to an urgent call from friend and fellow lawyer Vera Lang Horne, Antony Maitland rushes to the town of Chedcombe only to find a client with a strong motive, but no alibi. Jeremy Skelron is accused of murdering his wife, Lydia, who had refused to divorce him. To complicate matters, there is another woman and, bizzarely, the method of Lydia's murder perfectly parallels the famous Wallace case, which Jeremy, a writer, has been researching.