Aunt Bessie remembers nothing about the party that Elizabeth Quayle insists she invited Bessie to attend.
Elizabeth Cubbon, known as Bessie to nearly everyone, is confident that she would have remembered being invited to take part in a murder mystery evening. After everything she's been through over the past eighteen months, it doesn't sound the least bit enjoyable to her.
Aunt Bessie remembers thinking the whole thing was a bad idea.
And when someone at the party ends up dead, it looks as if she was right.
Aunt Bessie remembers as much as she can as she tries to help Inspector John Rockwell work out exactly what happened at Thie yn Traie.
But can she remember enough to put a murderer behind bars before he or she kills again?