At the reunion weekend of the "old girls" (alumnae) of an English Girls" school, Beatrice Baynes"s body is found stuffed in the bottom of a puppet theatre. Which of the busybody"s victims had finally turned on her? Scotland Yard"s Inspector Pollard and Sergeant Toye string together the mismatched and motives and means in a delightful and challenging puzzle that shows them at the top of their characteristic form. This is #1 in Inspector Pollard and Sergeant Toye Series.