An interesting novel with a female heroine who inherits the apartment and
belongings of her best friend who was a flamboyant and elegant research
laboratory assistant, the latter having died unexpectedly of sunstroke. A
necessary condition is that she moves into the apartment to care for the three
cats which she had done before when her friend was away. She takes to
wearing her dead friend's clothes and also using the long artifical finger-
nails her friend used. Some she did not previously know appears and is
convinced the dead woman was murdered but there is no proof until, almost
by chance, the method used is exposed. The psychology of the heroine and
her reactions to what she learns about her triend's 'hidden' life are well
portrayed and the book moves along briskly while seeming at times to be
rather leisured - in other words, it is well-paced. The various characters are
skilfully and economically drawn. A novelist who is worth searching out.