When a woman is found strangled in a North London cemetery clutching an old newspaper clipping, Inspector Witherspoon is surprised to find that he and the victim have crossed paths before. Alice Robinson was a respectable widow who ran a quiet lodging house. None of the lodgers have any apparent motive to murder their landlady. But nagging suspicions are lodging in the Inspector's mind - only he knows that "Alice Robinson" is not her real name. Now he'll need Mrs. Jeffries's help to revisit an old case that has haunted him for years. -- From the publisher.