'We're delighted to announce the publication of this previously unpublished crime novel.  After Murder at the Flood in 1957, Mabel Esther Allan went on to write another two crime stories, but unfortunately Stanley Paul chose that time to stop publishing fiction, and somehow they got overlooked. 

    The author's own blurb to the book begins:

    'When David and Elinor Gray, and their eighteen -year-old niece Rose, joined a Blue Dragon Tour to Italy they were looking forward to spring sunshine on the Mediterranean coast, and had no premonition that the holiday would soon bring suspicion, fear and the horror of murder.'