Was reading another book, but after a few personal events this week, found the family drama of that book too intense, so picked up this.

There is family drama here, too - but family drama of the English countryside circa World War II, and not anything that comes close to my own reality. So it reads quite light and airy.

Playgirl and wanna be film star Tanis Lyle is found dead, and a chinese shawl owned by her cousin Laura Fane is missing. Does the missing shawl implicate Laura in Tanis' murder? Will Laura sell the Priory to her cousin, Agnes Fane, after all the old drama of Agnes' broken engagement with Laura's father Oliver, who ran off with Lillian, after which Agnes rode her horse into a ravine and emerged paralyzed? Is one of Tanis' many male admirers to blame for her death?

Miss Silver is already on the scene, having been invited by her old school friend Lucy Adams (Agnes' poor cousin and companion), and hired by Agnes to investigate some petty theft in the household.

As always, order is restored at the end, after two deaths and nearly a third ...