Who killed a successful lawyer who had recently settled in a quiet suburb of London? Almost all representatives of the “crème de la crème” of local society, and even a few mere mortals, had certain motives. Unceremoniously pushing aside his colleagues with his elbows, the energetic upstart strives to occupy all conceivable and inconceivable legal positions, so that in this field he has gained a very bad reputation. As it turned out, he also collects negative information about some neighbors, behaves boorishly with others and mercilessly treats his own niece - by the way, the only heir to his considerable fortune. A bouquet of advantages, to say the least. And it must happen that none of the suspects has a cast-iron alibi, just as no evidence incriminating anyone was found. And if not for the intuition and extraordinary mind of Inspector Hemingway, already familiar to us, the case might have remained unsolved.