The Doll — Francis Durbridge

Publisher Peter Matty meets the widowed Phyllis du Salle, who tells him that her late husband collected dolls in national costumes and that soon after his death she found one of them in her bathroom. Matty later finds a Tyrolean doll where he least expects it, then learns that a friend of Phyllis has been murdered.Francis Durbridge is to tv and radio what Agatha Christie is to the novel - the master of the unexpected twist. Malcolm Moore