The Merediths are a wealthy country family. The next heir to the family's wealth and estates has chosen a modern London girl to be his bride, and his choice does not meet with approval... The free-thinking young woman causes friction in the family... until murder arrives in the house... a murder which it seems no-one could have committed... From the Golden Age of Detective Fiction comes a neatly plotted thriller in which atmosphere and mystery mix to produce a tight and satisfying tale.