Return From the Dead

''Return from the Dead'' (1959) by Miles Burton (John Rhode) features his regular investigators, Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard and amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion. The mystery centers on the unfolding story of unexplained disappearances in South America, a valuable treasure which is a stimulus for crime, and the murder of a receptionist in London, with the investigation leading back to a village connected to Merrion's own home.