The 1930s country house party packed with crooks, cops, and the usual suspects frame the perfect scene of the
crime. This one assembles all the right ingredients -- the theft of the fabled diamond necklace, the purloined
antique pistols, the secret passage, the ravishing baroness with a past, the body in the lake... What a pretty
puzzle! "Don't expect me to solve anything," Inspector Wilkens announces. But of course, he does: theft,
espionage, impersonations (triple, at the very least), blackmail, murder. The suspects include a noble host
and hostess, a jewel thief and foreign agents in disguise, bright young things, mysterious mature men, a Texas
millionaire, and, of course, the butler. Crime connoisseurs will recognize the ingredients for a zany pastiche,
a delightful romp paying tribute to the past while titillating the present. And what does the blood-stained egg
cosy have to do with anything?

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