"An unpretentious country art exhibit turns into a frightening episode of theft, murder and blackmail in this classic puzzler set in an affluent English farming village. What is the secret Katharine Ridley is keeping from her granddaughter? And what does it have to do with the death of popular Francis Peck, the Heritage Trust caretaker at Fairlynch, former manor of the Ridleys?

"The Yard's Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Pollard and Inspctor Toye are hard put to unravel the tangled doings among the gentry of bucolic Wellchester."
~~back cover

This is definitely my kind of mystery! Lovely dialog, well written, well plotted, no violence, no blood. And I was totally wrong about whodunit.

I love this author, and have almost all her books. They're definitely keepers! ( )