When awful things happen, Virginia Freer's ex-husband Felix is often nearby. A local writer is shot dead on the eve of her engagement—and right on time, Felix has turned up, like a charming, well-dressed, bad penny. With witty, slightly tipsy banter in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora, this 1980 sequel to Last Will and Testament is the work of a Burmese-born Scot, Morna Doris MacTaggart, who usually published her droll British mysteries under the name E.X. Ferrars.