Sister Anne died on Wednesday evening some time after supper, probably in the corridor leading from the Great Hall t the kitchens. Her body was put in the broom cupboard and later thrown down the cellar steps. But who would want to kill a cloistered nun?
That was the problem facing Inspector C D Sloan. He soon discovered that interviewing fifty black-habited Sisters as potential suspects for murder was no easy task, especially when he realized that, to him, one nun looked very much like the next, and every sister had an assumed name - and a past.