"Nancy Graham's second thriller is set,as was The Purple Jacaranda, in Australia. It is a story of sudden death in the peaceful seclusion of Deep Ridge sheep station, the home of Margaret's Uncle Matt and Grandmother Hunt. But it was not for his sheep that Matt was killed in what looked like a gun accident at No.1 outstation.
With him at the time was Jefferson Ransome, newly out from England, whom Margaret had met on a shopping expedition in Perth. Jeff had announced his intention of trying the open-air life and Margaret had introduced him to Deep Ridge. Then Stanislau Worenski turned up. He too seemed interested in Deep Ridge but he wasn't alive very long. Soon after he had met Grandmother Hunt, Margaret had found him swinging in his clothes cupboard. That was after Grandmother had given her medicine to her pet parrot and the parrot had died. Margaret found it all desperately confusing but she had to get to the bottom of it before she could marry Jeff with any peace of mind. If she had known the secret of Deep Ridge she would probably have recognised murder when she saw it."
- Publisher's blurb.
