Lord Pastern and Baggot is a classic English eccentric, given to
passionate, peculiar enthusiasms. His latest - Drumming in a jazz band.
His wife is not amused, and even less so when her daughter falls hard
for Carlos Rivera, the band's sleazy piano player. Aside from the young
woman, nobody likes Rivera very much, so there's a wealth of suspects
when he is shot in during a performance. Happily, Inspector Alleyn is in
the audience.