Continuing the definitive series of classic mysteries by American mystery and Nero Wolfe Award-winning author Charlotte MacLeod.
Sarah knows she shouldn't be here. The Kellings never did get invited back after that unfortunate incident when Madam Wilkins first opened her palatial museum to Boston's most critically outspoken Brahmins. But things have been quiet at Sarah's elegant Beacon Hill boarding house lately - nobody's been murdered in months.
Lodger Max Bittersohn has free passes to today's concert, and he's one man she finds hard to turn down. So here stand Sarah and Max on the palace's second-floor balcony, admiring the flower-filled courtyard blow. A peacock screams. A dark something falls past them from the floor above. Serenity turns to pandemonium as the oldest guard sprawls dead among the hyacinths.
