Overture to Death (The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces)

327 pp. Green boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decoration on boards. Page ridges gilt. "It's murder in the little English village, but the two local spinsters, Miss Campanula, the victim, and Miss Prentice, her friend who may have been the intended victim, are not exactly the beloved little old ladies of song and story. They were (and are) waspish, gossiping snobs, passionate only about their own narrowly defined religion .and, perhaps, about the local vicar. But could they have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer?"