In September 1925, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher inherits a large house in Hampstead, on the outskirts of London, from a recently deceased great-uncle. It's fortunate because he and his wife, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, are the recent proud parents of twins and their house is practically bursting at the seams. Though in need of a bit of repair and updating, this new, larger house seems a godsend, set in a small circle of houses, with a communal garden, and with Hampstead Heath nearby - the setting is idyllic.Idyllic, that is, until a dead body shows up half-hidden under the bushes of the communal garden. Now rumors of bootleggers, American gangsters, and an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships have turned everything in their new neighborhood upside down. Alec is assigned by Scotland Yard to ferret out the truth behind the dastardly dead - but it's up to Daisy to find out who the dead man is, what his relationship to her new neighbors is, why he was murdered, and who did him in! Read Less