Being the daughter of a late earl in England at the very dawn of the Victorian era, and even penniless, is not easy. But Miss Caroline Morton is not one to give up. Refusing to be called a lady, she takes a job as a companion to a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, her aunt, Lady Elinor Greenwood, invites her niece to a dinner party in honor of her daughter. But not all is well at the Greenwood estate. Not only is Caroline's ex-fiancé among the guests, but their aunt Inez is soon found brutally murdered in the nursery. Now Caroline will have to solve this case with the help of clues left by the criminal, because it seems that the heartless killer was not starting a child's game at all... Fascinating a classic detective story that takes the reader to Victorian England – in some places atmospheric, in others “murderous.”