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Tragedy strikes on the opening night of a glamorous new bar when 'last orders' are called for publican Haydon Dapeers, who is found dead in his beer cellar.
Brutally battered and then stabbed to death as the party is in full swing, the murdered man is soon discovered to have owed large sums of money to numerous creditors, all of whom Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard must regard as suspects.
Swiftly finding himself out of his depth, the bumbling inspector is fortunate to have his stalwart housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, on hand to drive the investigation forward. The question is, which of his many enemies hated Dapeers enough to want him dead?