'An early-morning murder in the park of a quiet country town. Two hitch-hiking girls, one of them guilty - one of them a liar.
'Four years on, Marion still has to know who killed her brother. The police, the press and ordinary people have lost interest in the case. She needs to call on Jefferson Shields - she's been told that he solves puzzles.
'You'll be baffled to the end of The Souvenir.' (Publisher's blurb [Wakefield Press ed.])