Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn't come home last night, so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow's resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired the MARLOW BELLE, a private pleasure cruiser, for an exclusive party with the MADS committee, but no one remembers seeing him disembark. And then his body washes up with two bullet holes in him - it's time for the Marlow Murder Club to leap into action. Oliver was, by all accounts, a rather complicated chap who wasn't short of enemies. Judith, Suzie, and Becks are convinced they'll find his killer in no time. But things are not all as they seem in the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society. The gang will need to keep their wits about them, otherwise a killer will walk free...