Meet Mrs Melita Pargeter, a vivacious widow with a talent for solving mysteries.

It’s a warm September afternoon when Melita is summoned to the grand Elizabethan manor home of genteel Veronica Chastaigne. Veronica is the widow of one of Mr P’s former associates. She’s anxious for Melita’s help in returning her late husband’s gallery of priceless ‘borrowed’ paintings to their rightful owners.

For Melita, it’s a point of honour to resolve any unfinished business her dearly departed husband left behind. She assembles a team of the late Mr P’s old crew, including Vanishing Vernon, Fritzi the Finger and Keyhole Crabbe, to carry out this reverse heist.

But when they arrive in a red Transit van to pick up the paintings, they discover that someone has beaten them to it!

Now it’s up to Melita to work out how to get the paintings back before the police catch up with her.

It’s all looking a bit too much.

But as usual, Melita has a trick or two up her sleeve . . .

Fans of Agatha Christie, M.C. Beaton, The Thursday Murder Club, Faith Martin, Jeanne M. Dams and Jane Adams will be hooked from the very first page!