Lionel Townsend is Sergeant Beef's priggish biographer, most often found
exasperated by Beef's boorish manners. But now Townsend's aunt has been
poisoned. Townsend must turn to Beef for assistance--he has surprisingly
found himself the prime suspect of the murder. When an unpopular
publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, it seems utterly unrelated.
Beef, in his inimitable way, flatfoots his way to a stunning
conclusion.