Murder among the marigolds...
Lady Priscilla Flanders, widow of the local vicar, is at last ready to pack away her mourning clothes, gather up her children, and departh the peaceful -- yet perhaps too quiet -- village of Stonehall-on-Sea for the bustle of London and the ton. Fate, however, has other ideas as a neighbor is discovered -- dead -- in Priscilla's garden...

Now a prime suspect in the murder, Priscilla is determined to find the real culprit before her meddlesome Aunt Cordelia can swoop in and spirit her young son, Isaac, away to a more "appropriate" environment. Fortunately Priscilla has an able assistant in Sir Neville Hathaway, an irrepressible old friend who'd be happy to help in the investigation... and things of a more pleasant nature. Priscilla and Neville must uncover the truth -- before someone closer to home falls victim to a killer's wrath. . .