A stranger, Gordon Ferrar, arrives at Arlington Grange with an injury, but very soon is suffering no more.

A psychic medium, Miss Terry, is summoned to Arlington Grange to rid it of evil spirits. She is perhaps not quite the real thing, and one of the regulars quickly sends her on a permanent visit to the Other Side.

Who killed Max Gold? And was it with a mallet, a stocking, an arrow, a fossil, a meat cleaver, or a poker?

Sister Concepta, a nun visiting the Grange, goes to meet her maker. Not surprisingly, there is no shortage of motives on hand for killing the sister in god - with a spear, a shotgun, a cake knife, a parasol, a paperweight, or, just conceivably, a corkscrew.

Despite arriving on his cue, Clive Moxton becomes the late Clive Moxton.