Cover her face: A beautiful, scheming young girl comes to Mrs. Maxie's house to help look after her invalid husband. When a murder upsets the peaceful country household, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is called in from Scotland Yard. A mind to murder: Attempts by Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh to find a murderer are complicated when psychiatrists at the fashionable Steen Clinic decide to play detective. An unsuitable job for a woman: Left alone by her partner's suicide, Cordelia Gray struggles to manage the private detective agency they once shared.