Francis Matthews

Robert is mismanaging the gallery owned by the Ivory family, and trying to get Frances Ivory to marry his associate. When Robert is found dead in a cupboard a file of family secrets and hatreds comes to light.

First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jacket. Then a corpse in a golden aeroplane. After another body, private detective Albert Campion nearly makes a fourth...

Both the skeleton and the corpse have died with suspicious convenience for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but charming actress with a raffish entourage. Georgia's best friend just happens to be Valentine, a top couturière and Campion's sister. In order to protect Valentine, Campion must unravel a story of blackmail and ruthless murder.