Last seen wearing - Colin Dexter

Wearing her trademark blue jeans, white shirt, sneakers and ankle socks, first-year student Lowell Mitchell arrived on time for her Friday morning history class, afterwards returning to her room. Shortly before lunchtime, roommate Peggy Woodling talked to her as she lay on the bed with an arm across her face. Mitch felt sick, nothing serious, said Peggy. But after that the pretty eighteen-year-old student simply disappeared . . . Twelve hours elapse before Chief Frank W. Ford of the Bristol Police is notified. By Sunday the vanishing student is headline news. And by Tuesday she is the centre of a breathtakingly thorough investigation - concerning murder . . .