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, David’s last hope is his
family’s stately home. But that can’t be sold until his
stubborn nanny moves—or dies.
As luck would have it, she does. Her death appears to be
an accident—until 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
characters—from the Dean’s mousy wife to his librarian
daughter to his very nervous son…all of whom had reasons
to
want the Dean dead.
But, as Mrs. Malory discovers, the evil men do lives after
them—on evil that may be much closer than she realizes.