Cecily expected a weekend of polite competition. She didn’t expect to be dusting for prints on a dead man’s Bugatti.

Lady Cecily Ashcombe is not your average vicar’s daughter. While she can navigate a tea party with grace, she’s much more comfortable navigating the internal combustion engine of a 1925 Sunbeam.

When the insufferable industrialist Sterling Vance arrives at the Ashcombe Manor motor rally, Cecily expects noise, oil, and a great deal of arrogance. She doesn’t expect a dead body.

Found slumped in his car inside a locked coach house, the local authorities are quick to point the finger at Ashcombe’s enigmatic mechanic, Miles. But Cecily knows a faulty gasket when she sees one—and this was no mechanical failure. It was murder.

With her faithful (if easily distracted) dog Pip and the quirky cast of Little Codding, Cecily must sift through a motor-yard of suspects who all had a reason to see Vance’s engine fail for good. In a world where she is expected to be decorative, Cecily is about to prove that a vicar’s daughter with a wrench and a mystery to solve is the most dangerous thing on the track!

Step back into the roaring twenties for a classic “Golden Age” mystery where the cars are fast, the social stakes are high, and the most dangerous person in the room is the one you never bothered to notice.