"Wanda had often told anyone within earshot that she intended to die young and leave a beautiful corpse. In the event, she had done neither. She was forty-odd if she was a day. And her remains were hardly in pristine condition if Detective Sergeant Tickleman's vivid description was anything to go by..." A shocking turn of events cast a long shadow over a second division Drama College, a faculty of eccentrics, their equally unconventional student body and one determined, amateur sleuth the eponymous Jaklyn Hyde.