George Abbershaw's weekend at the ancient, sprawling Black Dudley manor promised a convivial house party, but delivers instead a chilling whodunit. When a priceless family heirloom vanishes and a suspicious death casts a long shadow, George finds himself entangled in a web of secrets and mounting peril. Amidst the eclectic guests—friends, strangers, and a certain bespectacled, rather unassuming young man named Albert Campion who seems to have materialized out of thin air—George must discern friend from foe before the manor's dark history claims another victim.
