Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room. Suspicion immediately falls on his wifes lover the junior partner in the firm. But how does an unpublished Restoration comedy come to feature in the tragedy? & what of the odd disappearance of another director twenty years before? The trial of Mike Wedgwood for murder is nail-bitingly tense & Campion needs all his resources to uncover the truth.