A Don Packham and Frank Mitchell Mystery.

At a London pub one February night, a lock-in is in progress. Thirteen members and supporters of the Hollow Head's darts team are celebrating a great victory over a rival house. But by midnight, one of them is dead, her head caved in with a concrete doorstop in the ladies' lavatory.

Detective Inspector Don Packham and newly promoted Detective Constable Frank Mitchell soon establish that no stranger or passer-by killed Yvonne Wood. And it doesn't take them long to realize that of the dozen suspects, precisely twelve had motives for committing this murder ...

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