Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief

One of the better J. B. Fletcher run ins with the British secret agencies, this time members of the Home Office. Not Len Cariou as Michael Hagarty, but Trevor Eve as Julian Fontaine of the domestic agency MI5. There is an Alfred Hitchcock maguffin in the guise of a disappearing and reappearing dead body of a man Jessica met briefly, which she then sees in a hotel room next to hers, but which Scotland Yard cannot find even after several calls from Jessica. An intriguing cast of characters from various levels of London society high and low are also pursuing the dead man, but it is up to Mrs. Fletcher to discover the true secret of who murdered the victim and why.