A full-length noviel by Charles Osborne adapted z Agatha Christie's stage play, v ktorých a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discovered... storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, wife of Foreign Office diplomat, je given to daydreaming. `Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa má svoje šance, aby vyhľadali pri jeho discoverse body v kreslení-room svojho domu v Kent. Desperate to, že body pred ňou husband prichádzajú domov s dôležitými zahraničnými politickými, Clarissa persuades svojich troch domov cestujú do accessories a accomplices. Ide sems that the murdered man not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motív, while v tom istom čase trying to persuade a police inšpektor that there has been no murder at all...