Wicked Uncle // Spotlight — Patricia Wentworth

Gregory Porlock had brought them together... the dithering Mrs. Oakley and her rich businessman husband ... nouveau riche Mr. and Mrs. Tote, still uncomfortable hobnobbing with the hoity-toity... the Mastermans, a brother and sister raised above genteel poverty by the timely death of their aunt... Leonard Carroll, actor and clever man-about-town ...Moira Lane, sophisticated society beauty.. Justin Leigh, her escort... and the innocent Dorinda Brown, young social secretary with an older man in her past.

A group of house party guests with apparently nothing in common ... until their host, the oh-so-charming and "wicked" Gregory Porlock is found with a knife in his back and blackmailer as his epitaph. Only the sharp eyes of Miss Silver will be able to see through the myriad motives and clues--and discover which guest has made his or her final payment in blood ...