• Paperback
• Condition: Good
• 127 pages
• Fiction: Historical, Crime, Mystery

In retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely remembered by villagers as a once famous detective, is more concerned with his bees than with the outside world.

When a young boy, called Linus Steinman enters the old man's life, he is surprised and oddly touched. The boy, an escapee from Nazi Germany, is mute and accompanied only by his beloved grey parrot. But what is the meaning of the mysterious strings of numbers that the parrot spews out? When someone is killed and the parrot disappears the old man is determined to solve the mystery.