Vashti Parr is the most hated woman at the Sharlinden Hotel. When she is found murdered, her ex-husband's family are the prime suspects - but Vashti's new beau and her disgruntled maid also have good reason to despise the dead woman. But as the bodies begin to pile up, revealing intrigues within intrigues, Captain Ten Eyche of the local State Police begins to despair of ever finding the guilty party...
Written under a pseudonym by Marian Gallagher Scott (who also wrote as "Katherine Wolffe") this is a vintage murder mystery in which a closed community of suspects find themselves at the mercy of an unknown killer.