- While on a walking tour of the West Country, Harriet stumbles on the body of a bearded man with his throat cut on a rocky outcropping near the sea.
- After her acquittal on a murder charge, Harriet embarks on a walking tour of the West Country while working on her new novel. She spots a man lying on a rocky outcropping and tries to warn him that the tide will soon cut him off from the land. Approaching him, she finds his throat has been cut. She cooly collects evidence from the corpse before it is swept out to sea and walks to the nearest village to report the death. She shrewdly also calls the newspaper in order to cash in on the publicity of her discovery. Wimsey and Bunter volunteer their services to help her in her investigation. The dead man turns out to be a gigolo who worked as a professional dancer in aa local seaside resort and was engaged to a wealthy middle-aged widow who is convinced the death is murder and not homicide as the police believe.—duke1029@aol.com
- After being tried for murder and acquitted due to the intervention of Lord Peter Wimsy, Harriet Vane needs to get away from everything. She sets out on a walking tour of the west country, and starts working on a new novel. In her travels, she stumbles across a corpse, and reports it as a good citizen, and finds herself as suspect #1 again. Much to her chagrin, she again needs the help of Lord Peter Wimsy who rushes to her aid, and the two work together to solve the mystery. In the course of solving the mystery, they also figure out how to create a friendship.
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