Andrea Bailey is on duty at a local art exhibition in the gallery at Massey Hall when a portrait is mysteriously stolen. The artist Eris Treacher doesn’t want the police involved and asks Andrea and her friends Cora and Jackie to discover who stole it. An impossible task, but the three women, all in their later years, enjoy a good challenge and decide to solve the mystery.

With their enjoyment of puzzles, day trips and nice lunches, why not! What could possibly go wrong? Each time they solve one part of the mystery, another turns up to confront and confound them again. In amongst all these mysteries, they find themselves in the midst of a family fight where someone has murder in mind.

But despite the red herrings, false accusations, historical wrongs and a near miss car accident, eventually with the help of Betty and Sal at the studio, they work out what has been going on and why…

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