An impossible murder behind a locked door. Can DCI Oldroyd find the key to the mystery?
Lord Redmires gambling habit has placed him in serious debt. Determined to salvage his fortune by putting Redmire Hall on the map, the aristocrat performs an impossible locked-door illusion on live TV. But as the cameras roll, his spectacular trick goes fatally wrong
Special guest DCI Jim Oldroyd has a front-row seat, but in all his years with the West Riding Police hes never witnessed anything like this. He sees Redmire disappearand then reappear, dead, with a knife in his back.
As Oldroyd and DS Stephanie Johnson soon discover, nearly everyone at the event had a reason to resent the eccentric lord. But how did the murderer get into the locked roomor out, for that matter?
When the only other person who knew the secret behind the illusion is brutally silenced, the case begins to look unsolvable. Because as Oldroyd and Johnson know, its not just a question of who did it and whybut how?
