The delightful Miss Pink, Gwen Moffat’s amateur detective, is paying a visit to the remote village of Abersaint on the coast of West Wales... She’s there to join the birthday celebrations of her old friend Roderick Bowen: although it’s his 87th birthday, he’s still full of energy and recently emerged victorious in a battle with the atomic energy Authority, halting their plan to build a fast breeder reactor on his land. But Roderick has just had a nasty fall down the granary steps, and he believes that someone was trying to kill him. Then there’s the mysterious death in a fire of the flamboyant Sandra Maitland. Does Miss Pink have a murder to investigate?