Little Murder, A

London, early 1950s, Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and wearing a coal scuttle on her head. Detective Sergeant Greenleaf is tasked with solving the crime and bringing meaning to her gruesome death. It is a discomfiting matter, not only for the victim's niece Rosy Gilchrist - eager to distance herself from her aunt's fate and raffish reputation - but to all members of the deceased's social circle. The floral Felix and the acidic Cedric, awful Vera, self-enamoured artist Clovis Thistlehyde, the amiably inane Fawcett family - all, it seems have secrets to hide and grudges to bear.
A Little Murder by Suzette A. Hill