In the autumn of 1918, the Heredith family are entertaining guests in their old moated manor house in Sussex. During dinner, a scream and then a shot ring out upstairs. In her room they find Violet, the young wife of the son of the house, shot dead. There is no weapon and no trace, and the open window is six metres above the ground.
A Scotland Yard detective, then a famous private investigator, try to work out how the killer got in and out. A true English country-house puzzle, carefully built right up to the last page.
Full of suspense, this detective novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.
