Who killed the young playboy Nigel Stumbleforth while he was at Lady Clarendon's country house? There are plenty of twists and turns in this murder mystery which could have been written in 1915 by 6 famous authors in turn: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G.Wells, G.K.Chesterton and Joseph Conrad each contribute chapters in sequence and in their distinctive style and including appearances by Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown.