Murder darkens the bright days of summer in an idyllic Suffolk village, in an Albert Campion mystery that is simply "unforgettable" (A.S. Byatt).

One of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction's Four Queens of Crime

"The best of mystery writers."—The New Yorker

Private detective Albert Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered—and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motives, suspicion and deception.

Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic rural village, but it is a less romantic peril than Campion faced on his first visit, more than twenty years ago…

"Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered."—P.D. James

"Margery Allingham was one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel."—Alexander McCall Smith

"Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever."—Sara Paretsky