There will be absolutely no more house parties at Alderley, Lord Burford decides. Someone always manages to get murdered and he will have no more of that. However when his great aunt Florrie dies he has to rethink the situation. Florrie was a showgirl Buford's uncle married, who was reluctantly accepted by the family because she was great fun.
   When her survivors who will receive some inheritance from her will must spend the night because the lawyer/executor of the will can't be there till the day after the funeral, Lord and Lady Burford reluctantly agree to let everyone spend the night. There is the second wife of Florrie's dead son, John,Clara, who raised the two daughters, Agatha and Dorothy, who has a sordid second income-selling bits of gossipy details to the British tabloids. Dorothy, in particular, is treated like a servant. There is Gregory Carstairs, an MP with a secret girlfriend, and Timothy Saunders, a famous barrister, and his daughter, Penelope. And there is a few other cousins, Tommy Carr, with big plans and no money, and Stella Simmons, a fashion magazine writer who had spent a number of years in NYC, recently returned from the States.  All are being blackmailed but by who?

  When Clara is murdered and several strange clues -39 cufflinks are covering the floor and a strange omnious note on the nightstand, Inspector Wilkins is sent in to solve the case. Again the case is full of red herrings and Wilkins manages to separate the threads to get to the heart of the matter. I rate this one a solid 7.