When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew s Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder， Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie， slit throat to slit throat， next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives， Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . .From the Paperback edition.