Morse sought to hide his two-fold disappointment... So many people at the Haworth Hotel that fatal evening had been wearing some sort of disguise - a change of dress, a change of make-up, a change of attitude, a change of partner, a change of life almost; and the man who had died had been the most consummate artist of them all. For the New Years party celebration, hardl Morse sought to hide his two-fold disappointment... So many people at the Haworth Hotel that fatal evening had been wearing some sort of disguise - a change of dress, a change of make-up, a change of attitude, a change of partner, a change of life almost; and the man who had died had been the most consummate artist of them all. For the New Years party celebration, hardly a single guest at the Haworth had registered under a genuine name or address. The reader knows Thomas Bowman suspects his wife Margaret of infidelity after finding a suspicious note in her handbag, but what does that have to do with the stage-black hands and clean towels left by the Rastafarian-costumed corpse of light eater Mr Ballard and the bottle of champagne taken away by adulterous welshing Palmers?