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When Virginia Freer spends a weekend with her friends the Boscotts the last person she expects to meet is the lying, light-fingered charmer who was her husband. She and Felix have been separated for several years. Yet within a few hours of a party given to celebrate the engagement of a local poet and a best-selling novelist, the novelist's sister arrives distraught on the Boscotts' doorstep to announce that she has found her shot dead in their bungalow next door. And when Virginia, Felix and the Boscotts reach the scene they find that something very strange has happened to the corpse . . .

A deftly plotted mystery involving people whose relationships reach back into the past Virginia Freer is looking forward to visiting her good friends Helen and Andrew Boscott in their rambling old house in the village of Stillbeam. So she is distinctly put out when her erstwhile husband Felix turns up on the doorstep with a suitcase, still the charming and completely feckless person he has always been. That evening, both attend a party arranged to celebrate the engagement of a local poet and a best-selling historical novelist. They are shocked when the novelist's sister turns up on the doorstep, distraught with the news that she has found her sister shot dead. Virginia, Felix and the Bostcotts accompany her -- and find circumstances drastically and shockingly changed.