• Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• 656 pages
• Fiction: Classics
• Book 4/6 in the Palliser series

'He had given up everything in the world with the view of getting into offices; and now that the opportunity had come... the prize was to elude his grasp!'

Phineas Finn is living quietly in Dublin, resigned to the fact that his political career is over and coming to terms with the death of his wife, when he receives an unexpected invitation to return to Parliament.

He jumps at the chance and old romances and rivalries are revived. But when his adversary Mr Bonteen is murdered, suspicion immediately falls on Finn, and even the friends and lovers who formerly advanced him seem only to add to his shame.