The Anglo-Irish Murders

Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities.

She instantly press-gangs her friend Robert Amiss into becoming conference organizer.

The interested parties seem intent upon living up to the worst stereotypes, and when a delegate plummets off the battlements, no one can decide whether it was by accident or design.

The next death poses the same problem and causes warring factions to accuse each other of murder...