The ninth in the Euphemia Martins series of historical murder mysteries by Caroline Dunford, which follows Euphemia's escapades in the women's suffrage movement. Euphemia is glad to leave London - but before long she finds herself mixed up in another nefarious situation when a body is found burned to death on a country estate... It's up to Euphemia and her friends and employers the Staplefords to get to the bottom of things.