The Widow of Bath

´He intended never to see Lucy again, he regretted ever having met the late Mr. Justice Bath; Atkinson and Cady and Mrs. Leonard were frightening people; both Jan and Zoe were better left alone. But amongst them they had set him in motion again.´ Hugh Everett was intent on nothing more than sitting and drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on the south coast; and then Jan walked in, followed by his erstwhile love Lucy and her new husband, Justice Bath. When the night at Bath´s residence ends with the judge´s murder, Hugh is pitched back into a world of chaos and double-crossing; a world he had tried to escape for good. A deftly plotted mystery from 1952, Bennett delivers twists, international intrigue and brilliantly realized characters with a witty and distinctive style.