In September 1926, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is normally significantly amiss, Sybil provides asked Daisy to discretely investigate.Upon arrival, Daisy sees a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle, who was simply supporting them through his thrice-yearly, pseudonymous Westerns. When he took ill, though, Sybil required over composing them while he retrieved, only to see the sales increase. Right now, she concerns that someone in family members is usually poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him sick and Sybil writing the better-paying variations. But before Daisy may also obtain decently underway, Humphrey Birtwhistle dies under dubious circumstances and Daisy right now faces a death to untangle, a house full of suspects, and a Scotland Yard detective husband who is less than delighted at this switch of events.