When the barrister Ashley Tempest is called in to assist the trustees of the late Sir John Rellingham, he finds himself faced with a tantalising mystery: why has Sir John established a trust to safeguard £20,000 of his inheritance, without telling the trustess for whom, or for what reason the money is to be protected? Tempest is convinced that the answer is connected to the mysterious death of Evangeline Stableford - a death whose circumstances bear an uncanny resemblance to a suicide case investigated by Tempest many years before...
Originally published in 1910, this is another in the series of Edwardian murder mysteries featuring Ashley Tempest.