There will be ten teacups at Number 4, Berwick Terrace, w. 8., on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the metropolitan police is respectfully requested. So goes the note received by Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters from the murderer. It's the exact same situation that Scotland Yard faced two years earlier when William Morris Dartley was murdered. The killer escaped justice then. Now the police are out in force, eyes on every door, and yet once again the killer strikes and succeeds. Unfortunately for the killer, when he's faced with an impossible crime, Inspector Masters turns to old friend Sir Henry Merrivale, the man who can always find the key to any locked room. Six people could have killed Vance Keating but motive alone won't send the killer to the gallows. If H.M. can't figure out how it was done, the who in this classic Golden Age whodunit from 1937 will go free.

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