An invitation to stay at a friend of the Stewart family's stately home can only mean one thing for Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith-a new case for the amateur sleuths! With two apparently unrelated suicides, a double chase is on. But things never run smoothly for the Cambridge fellows. In an era when their love dare not speak its name, the chance of discovery (and disgrace) is ever present-how do you explain yourself when a servant discovers you doing the midnight run along the corridor? The chase stops being a game for Orlando when the case brings back memories of his father's suicide and the search for the identity of his grandfather. And the solution presents them with one of the most difficult moral decisions they've had to make...