The madness begins when Captain Orange and his three nieces are killed in a carriage accident. The only clues? A tall man seen near the Captain's house and a broken mirror found in the Captain's breast pocket. Next Janet Calthorp of King's College London tumbles to her death as she makes her way to her lover's bedroom the victim of a tripwire. The clue? A broken mirror found in said lover's boudoir. So it is little surprise that when the dead body of Juan Thomas de Jesus-Lopez is discovered in a ruined lighthouse the only clue found is a broken mirror. 'Mirror mirror on the wall' muses Superintendent Lestrade 'who's the guiltiest of them all?' He is to find out.

Part of the The Lestrade Series series.