PURSUIT OF A PARCEL

The parcel was addressed in sprawling capitals to &ldquo,Antony Rossiter, Esq. By hand.&rdquo, There was no more address than that. A sea-faring man brings an unassuming brown paper parcel to the offices of a distinguished law-firm. It soon plunges intelligence operative Antony Rossiter into the lethal underground of international espionage, military intelligence and murder. An inexplicable prowler is disturbed in a modest London villa during a lull in the great raids, young Delia Merridew meets a young man in her moonlit garden, an unobserved parachutist drops to the earth of occupied Holland. Now Scotland Yard&rsquo,s Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott must unearth the truth before an implacable enemy claims more than one life in this wartime mystery. Pursuit of a Parcel was originally published in 1932. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. &ldquo,When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself&mdash,and I always do.&rdquo, Mary Dell, Daily Mirror_,