Times are good in the Cornish village of Portcarrow, as hundreds of unfortunates flock to taste the miraculous waters of Pixie Falls.
Then Miss Emily Pride inherits the celebrated land on which Portcarrow stands and wants to put an end to the villagersโ thriving trade in miracle cures, especially Miss Elspeth Costsโs gift shop.
But someone puts an end to Miss Cost herself, and Miss Prideโs guardian angel, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, finds himself on the spot in both senses of the word...
Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marshโs real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand publicโs interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her โdameryโ in 1966.