Gwenda Reed's new home, a charming Victorian villa, is giving the lovely new bride the strangest feeling of déjà vu - and an unnatural dread that's taking its toll. Perhaps her husband's aunt, Miss Marple, can calm the young woman's frayed nerves.
After strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her, Anne must solve a mystery concerning a ballet dancer who is brutally murdered and a vanishing fortune in diamonds.