The townspeople would have said Laking, with it's stone rectory and thatched farmhouses, w as typical of a thousand other English villages. As it happened, this was true. And everyone in Larking thought they knew everything about everyone else. In that they found they were mistaken...especially the morning the postman found Grace Jenkins murdered. She had lived quietly at Boundary Cottage for twenty-one years, but there was a great deal about Grace the townspeople didn't know. And Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan soon discovered they knew even less about her daughter Henrietta...in fact nobody could explain who Henrietta really was.