Another quite good Gladys Mitchell mystery. This one has an agreeable weirdness throughout and the resolution, though rather abrupt, is plausible and gratifying. ( )

Mrs Bradley's great-niece, Fenella gets stranded in the village of Seven Wells and is forced to stay overnight in the local pub. By unfortunate chance it is the night of the 'Mayering',a sinister folk festival involving skeletons and also cloaked and masked figures representing signs of the zodiac. She is no shrinking violet and although warned by the inn keeper to stay in he room she instead sets out to try and find out what is going on.
A couple of days earlier the squire has been found murdered and these two events bring Mrs Bradley onto the scene to attempt a solution.
An ingenious puzzle which shows Gladys Mitchell at her macabre best. ( )