Cluedo

Despite arriving on his cue, Clive Moxton becomes the late Clive Moxton.

Sister Concepta, a nun visiting the Grange, goes to meet her maker. Not surprisingly, there is no shortage of motives on hand for killing the sister in god - with a spear, a shotgun, a cake knife, a parasol, a paperweight, or, just conceivably, a corkscrew.

A psychic medium, Miss Terry, is summoned to Arlington Grange to rid it of evil spirits. She is perhaps not quite the real thing, and one of the regulars quickly sends her on a permanent visit to the Other Side.

The long-lost Jack Peacock turns up unexpectedly from Bolivia, but not for long.

Before a charity auction at the Grange, a window cleaner is found eavesdropping. Ben is in fact a private eye brought in by Elizabeth Peacock to detect a sneak thief. Ben is soon dead. Who killed him?Scarlet knew Ben had searched her bedroom - but what did he find in her drawers? ... Mrs White was the petty thief at the Grange, and Ben had found her hoard... Elizabeth Peacock and Michael Mustard were overheard by the detective talking about a lost masterpiece they had found among the charity auction lots and hoped to buy for next to nothing, and Ben had wanted a piece of the action... He had previously investigated the disappearance of £5,000 from the local church, in which Jonathan Green may have been implicated... Peter Plum had reason to believe Ben had fathomed the mystery of the missing Old People's Holiday Fund...

After a string of thefts from the Grange, George Biddle comes to call, in connection with Mrs Peacock's insurance claim. Who is the thief? And, indeed, was anything really stolen? A number of other issues come to the surface. There are obscurities about an insurance claim on the late Mr Peacock's death. Biddle, an old friend of Colonel Mustard's, had promised him a directorship but had not delivered. It seems that Green had made a suspicious claim for some supposedly missing candlesticks, while Biddle also knew that Scarlet had sold a valuable bronze and put a modern copy in its place. And did Mrs White really set fire to the last house she worked in?The real mystery is surely that Biddle managed to survive for more than five minutes at Arlington Grange.

At a Fete at the Grange, an unidentified visitor in a dragon-suit is found to be Kirkbride, Elizabeth Peacock's private detective - but what was he doing there and why did sudden death arrive under his very nose?

Elizabeth Peacock has invited Peregrine Talbot-Wheeler (an expert on art and the presenter of a television programme about antiques) to value some of her possessions. In his last few seconds on earth, did Peregrine get a brief chance to conduct his final assessment on a Billiard Cue, an Antique Pistol, a Sword, a Bow Tie, or a curious Paperweight?

A local landowner has a scheme for filling in the Arlington village pond to build a night club. The ""Stop the Disco!"" action group is to see him at the Grange to confront him with its objections, but there is a fatal turn of events...