Roger Norton Vane is dead. Twenty years ago he went for a walk in the
Thai jungle with his partner and never returned. After years of wild
speculation and fruitless searches, finally his death is to be made
official and somebody will inherit his accumulated wealth.
Ethelred Tressider, crime writer and Vane's biographer, attends the
memorial service, but little does he expect to find himself talking to
Vane himself, apparently returned from the dead. Chaos ensues and while
trying to complete the biography it becomes clear that many people wish
the man calling himself Vane had stayed dead, and that his anecdotes had
died with him...