Georgette Heyer's mysteries have been compared to Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, and Margery Allingham. In this, the last of Heyer's mysteries to feature the intrepid Inspector Hemingway, Sampson Warrenby is found slumped under a tree with a bullet in his brain, and Hemingway finds himself facing a village of suspects all of whom have very good reason to have pulled the trigger. Detection is unlimited when it seems as if every citizen of the tiny village is stepping forward with a theory about who murdered Warrenby and why. But which of the villagers had the temerity to turn hatred into murder?