About the book: 2005 / In Miriam Whitelaw’s country cottage, her friend and protégé, the famous cricketer Kenneth Fleming, dies. As it turns out, those who might have wished for Fleming’s death were his abandoned wife, a son who had not forgiven his father for leaving the family, and the prodigal daughter Mrs. Whitelaw, who had reason to fear that Fleming would inherit her mother’s considerable fortune. But each of these three has an alibi. There is an assumption that Fleming died by mistake, instead of his fiancee Gabriella. However, the girl’s possible ill-wishers also have an ironclad alibi.