A murder happens in a small village church. Young Kara Queene is killed. Who could she have crossed?..
All at once eight people who were in the church at the time come under suspicion. And in order to find the guilty party, Inspector Alleyn must determine what caused the murder: jealousy, envy, or perhaps money?
One night, Alfred Meyer, the director of a theater troupe, was nearly pushed into the path of a speeding train. But that was not the end of his «troubles». At his wife’s birthday celebration—the actress Karoline Daykres—Meyer was killed by a blow… from a champagne bottle.
Inspector Alleyn begins the investigation and meets the theater actors—bright, and quite contradictory people who never take off their masks.