Arlette Montrose Banfield angered many marriageable women when she snagged the handsome Lewis Banfield--but were they angry enough to poison her? Mrs. Jeffries doesn't mind getting her hands dirty to uncover the greed behind her murder.

Dear old Minerva Kenny has a habit of "borrowing" things without asking, and nosy neighbor William Barrett is set on exposing her shameful secret. When Barrett's corpse is found with a dagger in his heart, Minerva naturally becomes the prime suspect. Can Inspector Witherspoon and Mrs. Jeffries find the killer?