They plan to have a quiet country honeymoon. Then Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride Harriet Vane find the previous owner's body in the cellar. Set in a country village seething with secrets and snobbery, this is a love story with detective interruptions and a detective story with romantic interruptions.

Return to a golden age of glamour, murder and intrigue. An exciting high profile relaunch for one of our best-loved detective story writers and her popular lead character Lord Peter Wimsey

Julia Larwood's aunt Regina needs help. The taxman is demanding his cut in her investment in equities, but she's spent the money already. How did she make a profit so quickly. The only person who can answer this question, Isabella del Comino, is found dead in her drawing room.

Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room. Suspicion immediately falls on his wife's lover, the junior partner in the firm. But how does an unpublished Restoration comedy come to feature in the tragedy? And what of the odd disappearance of another director twenty years before?

Detective, Albert Campion goes into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And, if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile, the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.

Campion is welcomed back from his three-year stint with the war office by a suspicious suicide case -- classic British crime writing at its best.