During an amateur performance, Idrys Campanula, an old maid, is killed. Alleyn will have to find out which of the neighbors, whose lives she had ruined with her intrigues, has had enough of it—and who decided to solve the problem once and for all, even if by a somewhat radical method… The meeting of three friends—the successful lawyer Wochman, the famous actor Parish, and the well-known artist Quibbit—ends in the most unexpected way: the lawyer dies in a bar at a resort hotel during an innocent game of darts. Everyone in the hotel becomes a suspect: from the victim’s bohemian friends to the eccentric female artist and a mysterious old man—an expert dart player…