'A pleasure to read' - Simon Brett

London florist Felix Smythe and his friend Professor Cedric Dillworthy are Suffolk-bound once more. But their hopes of a trouble-free visit are dashed by the gruesome murder of a highly-respected resident - an event which seems to be sinisterly lined with a bizarre killing in Cambridge of a cleric with murky proclivities.

The task of sifting truth from falsehood is made complicated by a bevy of local eccentrics, and the shadow over Southwold looms far, menacing visitor and resident alike, and leads to alarming results