The Edgar-winning author of The Case of the Weird Sisters pens another tale of suspense, betrayal, and murder. Young Bessie Gibbon witnesses an odd game of Parcheesi at the home of her wealthy uncle. He and his friends are playing as if their lives depended on the game's outcome. And later that evening, one of them is found dead—with the red Parcheesi marker on his body.

Agreeing to a brief visit with his young fiancé+a7e's eccentric sisters—blind Gertrude, deaf Maude, and one-armed Isabel—graying millionaire Innes Whitlock becomes the victim of a series of bizarre accidents. Original.

Aunt Emily Brown's adopted family has learned to endure her, but when someone slips her a pesticide mickey, seven seemingly innocent female relations top detective MacDougal's suspect list