Flemin Stone is on holiday on the coast of New Jersey. Admiring the gay young crowd he amuses himself by attempting to deduce the characters of the holiday-makers as they go about their fun. But Stone knows that when a detective goes on vacation, crime doesn't take a holiday - a maxim that is proved all too tragically true when Janet Converse is discovered murdered beneath her brightly-coloured beach umbrella. The apparent motive is the theft of a valuable diamond necklace, but Stone suspects a more personal motive might be at the bottom of the deed...
Originally published in 1931, this is a vintage American murder mystery from the golden age of detection.