In this murder mystery best seller, disparate actors check in at the ramshackle Grand Theatre situated in North Yorkshire to begin rehearsals for a new mystery and suspense thriller to mark a new season for the Chiltern Repertory Players.

Within days of getting to know one another, their leader, the despotic actor manager Arbuthnot Melange is found brutally murdered in the third row of the back stalls. Suspicion falls on young cast member who he is arrested on suspicion of homicide.

Eccentric actress and female protagonist Miss Tayke disagrees with the police and launches her own investigation. The doyen among women sleuths stumbles across a trail of ingenious skulduggery before unmasking the real culprit.

This crime fiction novel heralds the first appearance of Miss Tayke, the famous British female private detective.

In solving her first traditional British murder mystery the dogged leading light among women sleuths pulls out all the stops to make her mark as an amateur private investigator.