'The Man Who Lost His Wife' is a rather tepid story, and a badly told story at that, concerning a middle aged London book publisher who fears his wife has ran off to (former) Yugoslavia with his business partner. He runs off to snoop on her and finds misadventure of his own. Although not without curious moments, I found this book to be very dull read. The characterizations are especially thin.
Bottom line: even Julian Symons fans should give this a miss.