[Back of book]
Miss de la Pole drained her glass and rose to set a good example, drawing her black shawl round her shoulders.
"He won't do, you know," she said with inexorable gentleness; and having pronounced her oracle, as gently and decidedly withdrew, leaving them room either for comment or for silence.
As it turned out, no one had anything to object, or to add.
In a whirlwind of activity, wealthy newcomer
Arthur Rainbow extravagantly refurbishes the
Manor House, joins the Golf Club, Angling
Society and Arts Council-and, in a ruthless
coup, dislodges the old church organist to
take over the position himself. Rainbow was becoming a veritable curse on the sleepy village of Middlehope-until someone pushed him off St. Eata's church tower.
The news causes very little surprise or sorrow to the villagers-but much speculation as to who the murderer could be. After all, there are so many candidates-from his young, beautiful, flirtatious wife to the usurped organist and his mutinous choir. It falls upon Superintendent George Felse, newly promoted head of the Midshire CID, to follow the twisted path to Rainbow's end.