Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet Vane, the detective story writer, are settling into their new life together in London It is 1936, and London is a social whirl for the fashionable and wealthy When murder strikes in the Wimsey's exalted social circle, Detective Inspector Charles Parker, Wimsey's brother-in-law, seeks his help and Harriet becomes drawn into a case which casts an unexpected light on her own life with Peter