The elderly family solicitor preferred to take his four o'clock tea in chambers. But this afternoon, tea was served with sudden death. Any of the clients who consulted him that day had the opportunity to sneak back and do the deed. But London's leading actor, Joseph Dowling, had a motive. And in his current performance of Macbeth he also had a bloody dagger - the same one found lethally lodged in the lawyer's back.
Now a British courtroom could be the setting for Dowling's last public performance - unless barrister-detective Antony Maitland can put the spotlight on the real killer before an innocent Macbeth takes his curtain call as a condemned prisoner. -- from book back