Most people disliked Liz Ellerman, and with good reason. Perhaps her abrasive personality, and lack of consideration for others were not enough to get her killed. However many people have guilty secrets, perhaps minor, but not something they want generally known. Liz had a way of finding out about secrets - she enjoyed having power and used it to get her own way. At Peter's party, Liz very clearly shows her contempt for Molly and other women who give up a career to look after their family full time. Molly, shaken by this encounter, escapes from the party into Peter's beloved garden - only to find Liz's dead body hanging over the edge of the swimming pool. Though Molly ridicules the idea of employing a detective - 'I get a vision of a long thin blue-stocking of a woman in a deer-stalker, studying everything through a magnifying glass' - when her husband Howard is arrested she changes her mind. But Hazel is quite unlike her idea of a modern Miss Marple... Casewrap Hardcover Version
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