The young mistress of the Letter End estate, the beautiful Lois, is found dead... Which of the many members of the eccentric family could have put poison in her coffee? The police find out that Lois was hated by the entire female half of the family. And according to the will, all the money goes to her husband Jimmy...However, Maud Silver is sure: the solution to the mystery of the murder in Letter End lies not in money or in the will, but in the relationships between its inhabitants....There are bad rumors about the Pilgrim's Rest estate: everyone its owners, who were planning to sell the estate, became victims of accidents. But rumors are rumors, and when the current owner, retired Major Pilgrim, miraculously manages to avoid death under mysterious circumstances, he has enough common sense to turn to Maude Silver for help. The investigation begins...