The London season in high society - balls, cocktails... the joys and sorrows of young debutantes, the secret passions of their still lovely mothers... This whole world was destroyed in an instant by the mysterious death of everyone's favorite, a regular at social events... Thus begins the novel by the famous writer Nayo Marsh , who was awarded the title of Dame of Cavalry by the Queen of England, and the title of Grand Master by the Detective Novel Authors Association of the USA. No less mysterious events shook the small English town in the novel by another master of the detective genre, Anne Maybury - one of the pillars of the local society was killed, his beauty was accused of murder -wife. But in fact, it is she who is in mortal danger... And only love can unravel all the threads of an insidious crime and give long-awaited happiness to the woman who truly suffered for it. Published in Russian for the first time.