Janet Markham is looking forward to Edward Bennett’s arrival at the bedand breakfast she runs with her sister Joan. She and Edward have beenseeing one another for a while now, and he’s meant to be retiring andmoving to Doveby Dale for good. Joan is just anxious to get thecarriage house cleared out so that she can turn it into a guest room.WhenJanet moves the last few boxes and finds a skeleton, though, Joan’splans get put on hold as the sisters find themselves caught up in amurder investigation. Inspector Harold Colbert from Derby is in chargeof the case, and he doesn’t seem interested in getting any help from thesisters’ friend Robert Parsons, the local constable.When Edward arrives, he’s eager to help with the investigation, but Harold has his own ideas about how things should be done.CanJanet and Edward work out whose body was hidden in the carriage house?Was it murder or did the victim meet with an unfortunate accident? Andwill Edward finally give Janet the combination to the safe in thelibrary?