Mrs. Bradley, with her trusty chauffeur George, arrives at Chayning Court for the engagement party of her god-daughter, Eleanor Bing. Later that evening, Eleanor's fiance is found dead in the bath. The police are called in and conclude that his death was nothing more than a tragic accident, but Mrs. Bradley is not satisfied. She launches her own investigation, using her prodigious charm and wit to help the local police catch a killer.

From "one of the Big Three women detective writers," a British crime novel featuring an unusual female sleuth investigating murder in an English village (The Observer).   When a dismembered corpse is found hanged in the local butcher shop, no one in the English country village of Wandles Parva is too disturbed to hear the body is Rupert Sethleigh's. Seems like just desserts for the blackmailing moneylender, which leaves psychoanalyst-turned-sleuth...