The novel takes place in Greece. As is often the case with M. Stuart, her heroines, going to rest, find themselves amid strange events. This time the intrigue revolves around smugglers, actors, and ordinary officials of the British embassy.
Young actress Lucy Waring came to visit her sister on a secluded island in the warm southern sea and accidentally discovered that her idol lives next door. The wonderful actor Julian Gale suddenly left the stage two years ago. His stay on the island is shrouded in some kind of mystery—one that Lucy is about to penetrate. Suddenly, the calm of the peaceful island is shattered by a chain of terrible events. Fear, danger, and death—behind it all is a person for whom murder is nothing more than a game.