The happy camaraderie of the Porthcove Studios holiday hotel is shattered by the arrival of the misanthropic George Bullard. He goes out of his way to annoy both staff and fellow artist guests. So when Bullard is found brutally murdered, everyone in the hotel comes under suspicion as having a motive to kill him. Then there is a second murder. The police are baffled, and it falls to the unorthodox lady detective Miss Isabel Eaton to unmask the killer.
"Interstellar entrepreneurs, the Eden clan, had opened up new planets, building a galactic empire, governed by the United Worlds' Federation. However, stability is threatened by an impending war between the world's of Technos and Mogul. The Federation fears intervention by the clan's sole survivor, Kyle Eden. Meanwhile, Hew Keston is investigating the Eden family's history for the media corporation Stereoscopic Inc. But his life is in danger - someone is stopping him from learning the secrets of the Eden clan!"--Publisher description.