It was only a parlor game to while away a bitter winter evening. When the spirits rapped out the message that Captain Trevelyan was dead, it struck everyone as a bad joke. But when Major Barnaby found Trevelyan very dead on his study floor, it was a decidedly eerie coincidence...a coincidence that raised startling questions. Inspector Narracott wanted no help from the spirit world. He wanted answers...answers that would explode in scandal and point the finger at the man—or woman—who had committed a macabre murder.