Agatha works with her new male neighbour - Paul Chatterton- who she still has fantasies about, although they are fewer and far between an impinge less on the narrative. They work together less well than she has with her other partners, but I think that makes the story more interesting and readable. It was nice to. See Charles reappear towards the end of the story. As usual Agatha goes at the mystery of the haunted house as if she is a bull in a china shop, but her intuition when the owner is found dead helps the solution to be found.