Her name was Lotte Liselotte. She was a world-famous German actress and a onetime flame of Adolf Hitler. And she had come to the lovely Channel island of Lyonesse to 'get away from it all.'

Then British publisher Andrew Adams, his charming wife Ashe, and the other assorted tourists on the island found, to their consternation, that Fraulein Liselotte had indeed 'gotten away from it all' -- by getting herself murdered