Publisher's Synopsis
It is 1969. You are invited to spend the weekend at a magnificent stately home. But beware - someone is harbouring murderous thoughts... Among the guests are young detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, in disguise and already on a case. The house's owner - a penniless, dope-smoking aristocrat - is intent on selling the estate, complete with miniature railway and hippy encampment, to a secretive millionaire, and events soon take a horrible turn. One of the group is felled from the sky, another goes missing, and there's something grisly at the bottom of the garden. Bryant and May need help, but the army has closed all the roads and it simply won't stop raining. Amid the murder, the madness and the macabre discoveries, they realize that at the fag-end of the swinging sixties, the good times are drawing to a close, and nothing is quite what it seems...
