An antique dealer's murder initiates a deadly scramble for possession of his priceless eighteenth-century Staffordshire pottery

Retired Inspector John Webber and his eccentric companions are drawn into a case involving a wealthy heiress named Margaret Garland, an unusual hitch-hiker, and the behind-the-scenes plotting of the antiques trade

John Webber is called out of retirement to investigate the suspicious death of a couple in France and finds that in the world of English pottery there is a secret worth killing for

In just over an hour and twenty minutes, Joseph Greenwood would be dead… A successful art dealer with a penchant for paintings, Greenwood is blissfully unaware of his date with death as he drives through the English countryside. His mind is on the hot tip he’d received about a very valuable, original Stanley Spencer painting now in the hands of one-time actress and Flaxfield resident Victoria Varley. But after one look, Greenwood’s dead—and Victoria and the large sum of money Greenwood had on him have disappeared. Not putting much faith in circumstantial evidence, the sleuthing twosome of Lizzie Thomas, plucky housewife, and not-quite-retired police inspector John Webber get on the case—and discover that art collecting can be a most dangerous business… and that priceless masterpieces can often lead to wholesale murder. (Publisher’s description)