The 10th novel in the charming Daisy Dalrymple series of 1920's country house murder mysteries. After her late morning meeting, Daisy agrees to accompany her editor, Mr. Thorwald, to lunch but as they are leaving the offices, they hear a gun shot and see a man plummeting down a lift shaft. Again in the midst of a murder investigation, Daisy's search for the killer takes her to all levels of society.