In the old English estate of Bookshaw, the last representatives of the aristocratic family live - the eccentric Colonel de Luce and his three daughters. While the colonel is frantically looking for ways to save his family from ruin, selling a collection of stamps and family silverware, the two eldest daughters, Ophelia and Daphne, play with the youngest in the Inquisition, but Flavia is not up to the game, the young detective is busy with another investigation. That’s enough ,. to go crazy , but besides everything else on the territory of Bookshaw attack a gypsy fortune teller , camping in the woods , And Flavia finds the corpse again - on the trident of the fountain - someone Clearly not devoid of cynicism and a sense of humor , Hanged local prochindea Brooke Heyrwood. A stubborn Inspector Hewitt takes on the investigation, as usual, underestimating the detective talents of the ubiquitous eleven-year-old crumb from Bookshaw. Who but Flavia with her persistence, intelligence and restless curiosity will be able to link the series of disappearances, deaths, thefts and abductions that have occurred in the quietest Bishop Lacey in recent years?