For Althea Graham, suffering the whims of her malevolent invalid of a mother, the old family home is a prison. So when two strangely competitive offers for the Graham's house are made to her it suggests that house may hold some dark rewarding secret.
Then old Mrs Graham is found murdered in the gazebo . . .
Read MoreYou can't go wrong with Miss Maud Silver. - The ObserverMiss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller - Daily TelegraphMiss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot - Manchester Evening NewsMiss Silver is marvellous - Daily Mail...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery - Alfred Hitchcock Magazine