About the book: 2013 / A party of provincial aristocrats ended in a scandal - retired lawyer Harold Cartell accused those present of stealing an expensive cigarette case. And the next day, April 1, someone made a “successful joke” and killed Cartell... Roderick Alleyn, who was entrusted with the investigation, finds out that almost everyone who was at that party had a motive and the opportunity to get rid of the scandalous lawyer…