Just about any of the guests at Johnny Redfield's party seems to have a
good reason to have killed the guest of honor, Johnny's Californian aunt
who, with her astral name and vague pretensions of mysticism, does not
exactly blend in the elegant New York atmosphere that surrounds her. And
what's more, no one has a solid alibi. It will take all of Henry
Gamadge's ingenuity to figure out this closed-room mystery.