Tea on Sunday

Alberta Mansbridge has invited eight people to have tea: her doctor, her administrator, two protégés of dubious personality, an old friend, a nephew. But that cold afternoon none of the guests manage to get the door open.

When the police force entry they find Alberta sitting on her desk, strangled. The intricate investigation, told with a masterful hand, helps the author to probe, with acute sensitivity, the mysterious channels of human behavior.