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Eager to avoid London following the scandal of her husband's death, Lady Fieldhurst accepts an invitation to invest the summer in rural Yorkshire as the visitor of Sir Gerald and Sweetheart Hollingshead. She soon discovers, however, that country life is not the panacea she had envisioned. Stress reigns and tempers flare at Hollingshead Place, scheduled in large part to Sweetheart Hollingshead's ambitions for her daughter, a lovely young lady destined for a brilliant marriage regardless of her love for a penniless curate. When a social gathering ends with the death of the vicar - a kindly old heart whose only sin is apparently the authorship of the dull local record - Sweetheart Fieldhurst suspects foul play and sends for Bow Streets Runner John Pickett, with one stipulation: since she is a guest inside your home, Picket must keep his connection to Bow Streets a top secret. Pickett obliges by delivering himself as her footman, filled with livery and powdered scalp. But Pickett soon has his white-gloved hands full sifting through old secrets, uncovering covered passions, and working with a demanding housekeeper - not to mention avoiding the younger daughter of the house, a precocious 14-year-old with a university gal infatuation for the faux footman. Then there exists the problem of Sweetheart Fieldhurst herself, simultaneously an able associate and an all too enjoyable distraction.
