Cambridge, 1896. Motherhood and private detecting don't easily go hand
in hand, but even with two small children Vanessa Weatherburn still
manages to indulge her passion for solving mysteries. When three sombre
scholars knock on the door of her family home, Vanessa is presented with
perhaps her most puzzling case yet.
Professor Gerard Ralston, Head of the History Department at King's
College, London, has been shot dead in his study. As the only suspect
left the building a matter of seconds before the shot was heard, and
with witnesses testifying that no one left the building after the shot
rang out, all are perplexed as to how the killer could have escaped.
Vanessa must use all her logic and intuition in order to solve the
paradox of a seemingly impossible murder.