At a weekend gathering of relatives and friends, Gloria Mundy, a woman from the host’s pre-marital past, turns up unheralded and uninvited, and her visit is followed by a series of disturbances, domestic disagreements and two unrelated accidents. These culminate in the discovery of a charred corpse in the burnt-out dower house in the grounds of the mansion.
Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley has been one of the guests, but only so that she can cast a professional eye over the eccentric, elderly aunt of the hostess, and she is called away before anything untoward or dreadful comes about.
Rights: | US |
Publisher: | Amazon US |
Year: | 2012 |
Rights: | UK (rights reverted) |
Publisher: | Michael Joseph |
Year: | 1982 |
Rights: | US (rights reverted) |
Publisher: | St Martins Press |
Year: | 1984 |
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