Andrew Basnett may be retired from academia, but that doesn't seem to
have stopped his former colleagues from dumping problems in his lap.
This time around it's the peppery Constance Camm, whose neighbors keep
disappearing. Miss Camm and her sister, Mollie, might be tempted to
shrug things off, were it not for a frightening letter. "I know where
you buried the body," says the letter, but...to which disappeared
neighbor does the letter refer? And why was it sent to Mollie, who
hasn't been burying anything? Spurred by a desire to help a friend
(and--admit it!--by his own curiosity), Professor Basnett starts poking
around. But his efforts uncover more than one village skeleton, and they
may call up more than anyone has bargained for.