Death of an Old Girl

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.