Inheriting a home on the outskirts of London from Alec's late uncle, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her Scotland Yard detective husband Alec Fletcher, and their infant twins are delighted to move into a larger house, until a corpse turns up their garden bushes and rumors abound about bootleggers, American gangsters, and an international liquor smuggling ring. 20,000 first printing.