When Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, are invited to Lord Riddlethorpe’s nation estate for a week of motor racing and parties, they both agree it sounds like a flawlessly charming holiday. But when among the motorists dies within a crash during the very first race, they find that what appeared like an uncharacteristic error in judgement may possess a more sinister explanation .

Closer analysis reveals which the drivers’s car was sabotaged – as well as the drivers murdered. The neighborhood constabulary are quick to dismiss the case, but Flo and Lady Hardcastle are decided to find out just who has dedicated this dastardly take action, and just why. As the set begin to make enquiries of Lord Riddlethorpe’s servants and guests, it seems that, below stairs and above, there is certainly more to the case than matches the attention. And, actually in the noiseless from the countryside, death is always simply around the flex.