A quiet lodger. A secret vice. A fortune-seeker who will stop at nothing. A neighbour's quiet lodger dies in an unlucky fall, but Vita finds clues that suggest a complex and dangerous secret life, and doubts his death was an accident. Forced to investigate when the police refuse to listen, she finds a connection with a second sudden death - that of a wealthy and eccentric local lady. As usual, Vita's discoveries infuriate the...