Myrtle Hardcastle dash; twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective odash; is back on the case, solving a string of bizarre murders in her hometown of Swinburne.
When the proprietor of Leightonhsquo;s Mercantile is found dead on the morning his annual Christmas shop display is to be unveiled, itesquo;s clear a killer had revenge in mind. But who would want to kill the local dry-goods merchant? Perhaps someone who remembers the mysterious scandal that destroyed his career as a professor and archaeologist. When the killer strikes again, each time manipulating the figures in the display to foretell the crime, Myrtle finds herself racing to uncover the long-buried facts of a cold case mdash; and the motivations of a modern murderer.
