Summer Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville are there to sign a deal to film Josephines novel A Shilling for Candles and Alfred Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertainedmdashand expose their deepest fears But things get out of hand when one of Hollywoods leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village The following day fear and suspicion take over in a setting where nothingmdashand no onemdashis quite what it seems
