When bored billionaires Baroness Beryl ‘Badger’ Brocc receives yet another inheritance, she wearily throws a three week party for her glamorous and notoriously shallow friends.

But as the hi-jinks and gadabouts fizzle out, a sinister hush decends upon the manner house, and Badger finds a mysterious book left upon her mantlepiece. A book seemingly published 50 years in the future, that details events from 100 years in the past.

Who put it there, and just who was this recently deceased Uncle Corvidale? Badger undertakes some investigations, clambers up the family tree and finds herself riding upon a most peculiar carousel into some very untimely situations.