Mrs. Sheila Malory and actor David Beaumont have been friends since their salad days. Less green today, David is scrambling to save his charming, much-mortgaged cottage located across from the famed Royal Shakespeare Theatre. When his brother, the hated Dean of Culminster Cathedral, refuses to give him a loan, Davidโs last hope is his familyโs stately home. But that canโt be sold until his stubborn nanny movesโor dies.
As luck would have it, she does. Her death appears to be an accidentโuntil someone poisons the Dean. And David is the prime suspect. Called upon to solve this family tragedy, Mrs. Malory soon has her own list of suspicious charactersโfrom the Deanโs mousy wife to his librarian daughter to his very nervous sonโฆall of whom had reasons to want the Dean dead.
But, as Mrs. Malory discovers, the evil men do lives after themโon evil that may be much closer than she realizes.
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