The second book in M.C. Beaton's Edwardian murder mystery series. Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parent's house to become self supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite as liberating as Rose has imagined, but her drudgery comes to an end when old acquaintance Freddy Pomfret is murdered and her help is required by amateur sleuth Captain Harry Cathcart.Rose and Harry prepare to take on the usual Edwardian social rounds, but little expect to uncover a devious blackmail plot and an unexpected killer.

M.C. Beaton (1936-2019) was the author of both the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, as well as numerous Regency romances. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages and have sold more than twenty-two million copies worldwide. She is consistently the most borrowed UK adult author in British libraries, and her Agatha Raisin books have been turned into a TV series on Sky.