When Peter Maxwell attends a school reunion of the class of '65 all is not as it seems among his old chums. They are career men family men - but the years have taken their toll and the seething tensions of the school years surface in unlikely ways. At the end of the reunion weekend a man is dead hanging from the bell rope of the old school. When a second death occurs Maxwell finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation. What is the secret that has been lurking under Maxwell's nose all these years - and could he be on the murderer's list for killing No. 3?

Part of the The Peter Maxwell Series series.