Clarissa discovers a body in the drawing room. If that wasn't bad enough, Clarissa must now dispose of it before her husband returns home with an important foreign politician. She persuades her three house guests to help in her attempts to hide the body when a policeman arrives at her door in response to an anonymous tip about a murder. Now, Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the police inspector that there has been no murder, and all the while attempting to uncover the identity of the murderer. From the hardcover copy.