To celebrate the 700th Anniversary of Brackenbury Abbey, its Prior, Dom Ambrose invites Librarian, Miss Hilary B Lavender to catalogue its Bibliotheca. She’s hardly stepped through its magnificent portals before the murders begin. It all starts with the disappearance of a mysterious package, recently arrived from Rome. Bodies keep turning up but what is the connection? Indeed, is there any? With the able assistance of her epicurean bridge partner, Sextus Phipps and her friend, Chief Superintendent Charlie Chivers, late of Scotland Yard, Miss Lavender finds the answer. But will it be enough to stop these random murders? With dogged determination and her small armoury of gadgets,things turn out not quite as she expects...