'Love and death' said Chief Inspector Wexford 'Those were the only two sensational things that ever happened to Margaret Parsons' By the look of it, she had had a very dull life She had been a 'good woman' religious, old-fashioned and respectable It was not her life that interested Wexford though, but her death She had been a predictable, ordinary woman but now she had met with a death of passion and violence for which there seemed neither motive nor clue