Simon Brade, connoisseur of antique china, is invited to Medbury Grange, the country home of noted socialist campaigner Selford Prentice. Ostensibly, Brade has been called in to examine a valuable porcelain fish, which Prentice wishes to sell. But no sooner has the specialist arrived at the Grange, than its owner's real motives are revealed. For Prentice suspects that someone has designs on more than his porcelain - suspicions which seem justified in the most violent fashion when he is found dead in his study. With no shortage of suspects, it is up to Brade and his associate Doctor Jerrold to work out exactly who committed the crime - and why.
Originally published in 1937, this is a vintage murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.