The vacationing Austens seek shelter at High Down Grange when their carriage overturns. In the dismal manor house, Jane meets the forbidding and secretive Geoffrey Sidmouth. Is there some link between him, the man found hanged down by the sea, and a notorious smuggler? Wickedly clever, stylish mystery. Second in the series. "Plenty to enjoy... [She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo."—USA Today