London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in a new series featuring portrait artist Charles Honeybath. He "is offered twice his standard fee if he will agree to pend a fortnight in the country, at a place unspecified, painting the portrait of a client who must remain unidentified. Whereupon he is drawn into an extremely bizarre, and for some people fatal, adventure." 192 pp. ISBN: 0-575018577.