This is the seventh book in the Inspector Roderick Alleyn series. What starts out as a investigation of blackmail among the elite circles that Alleyn was born to, soon expands to include murder. It's debutante season and the young women are in the midst of the whirl of balls and social events designed to display them to the "marriage market." Lord Robert "Bunchy" Gospell is assisting Alleyn in the search for the blackmailer. During one of the balls Bunchy finds the blackmailer and calls Scotland Yard to meet with Alleyn after the ball. But Bunchy is delivered to the Yard in the form of a corpse. It's obvious that the perpetrator was present at the ball. Alleyn and his assistant, Inspector Fox, have to interview a large number of possible suspects before finally fingering the culprit. In a side story, Alleyn's romance with the artist, Agatha Troy, is heating up much to the pleasure of his mother, Lady Alleyn. This is a complicated and ultimately satisfying mystery.
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