This is an enjoyable, hilarious, and suspenseful tale of a close-knit group and the situations they encounter when they attend an estate sale but it soon turns into another adventure thwarting crooks and escaping incarceration for being too close to the fan when the mess hits it! The stories as ever are set in a bygone England we romanticise about and concern a bunch of rich layabout snobs who are all much more likeable than they should be, as is Yates' prose.