One would hardly contact them birds of a feather, but thrill-seeking American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and quietly reserved Brit Edwina Davenport carry out one thing very well together-solve murders.Posting lodging in the sleepy British community of Walmsley Parva provides eased a number of the financial pressure on the two old school chums, but money continues to be tight in these slim years following a Great War. Most of Beryl’s ex-husbands have proven reluctant to spend the her alimony, which is certainly most inconvenient. Therefore about Murder Flies the Coop when the neighborhood vicar-and pigeon-racing membership president-approaches them with an exclusive inquiry chance, the girls eagerly accept. There’s been an area of bother: the treasurer provides absconded using the club’s funds and several prized wild birds. Beryl and Edwina hope to flush out the missing man by looking at his boardinghouse and job at the coal mine. However when they visit the man’s loft, they discover their elusive quarry lying in white feathers and a pool of crimson blood, stabbed to death-the only witnesses cooing mournfully. After a stiff gin fizz, the females resume their search for the lacking funds and prized birds-and today a murderer. Beryl and Edwina aren’t timid about ruffling a few feathers as they house in on their suspects. But they had better discover the killer fast, before their sleuthing profession is cut short.