Daisy arrives at the Occles Hall estate to write an essay about it for a magazine, and notices one withered bush in the beautiful garden. At the request of the owner of the estate, Lady Valeria, the bush is dug up - and the body of the maid Grace Moss is unexpectedly found... This causes a real shock among the inhabitants of Occles Hall: everyone was sure that a couple of months ago Grace simply ran off with a visiting salesman. And then it turns out that at the time of her death the unfortunate woman was pregnant... But who is the killer? The domineering and eccentric lady Valeria? Her down-at-heel cheese-maker husband? Her handsome son with his extremely suspicious secretary? Or maybe Grace was dealt with by her jilted groom? Or did her lover, that same dapper traveling salesman, get rid of her after learning about her pregnancy?...Daisy, of course, cannot stay away from the investigation. Moreover, the murder case has been entrusted to her faithful knight, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard Alec Fletcher...< /p>