From the Collins Crime Club blurb: "One day in spring, 1941, Kay Bryant walked along the bombed London street in which she had rented a bed-sitting-room before the war. She had come to see what the Blitz had done to Little Carberry Street, but now that she had seen its emptiness and stillness there was a chance she might be able to forget some of the horror associated with No. 10 and at last blot out its grim memories or murder. It began when a gun was found hidden in the room of a new tenant – a gun which proved to be the weapon used against the room’s former occupant, found shot on Hampstead Heath.

The police, led by Inspector Cory, were convinced that the murderer would be found among the denizens of No. 10, yet to Kay this seemed impossible, for all of them were her friends. But as she talked with them about the murder, each put forward the name of a different suspect, and each made out an undeniably strong case. One of them had judged correctly, and a further death took place."