If Lester Ballard had had any say in the matter he wouldn't have been seen in the cheap gaberdine suit, the green cotton shirt and the pointed brown suede shoes, but as he was dead, he had no control over such sartorial lapses Ruth Seabright, governess to Lester's son, Nicky, found his murdered body, and was as baffled by its incongruous attire as by the fact of the murder itself This, however, was to be the first of many puzzles Where, for instance was Nick? Who had been searching Ruth's bedroom? and how can a corpse be in two places at once?