"Dandy Gilver's reputation as a sleuth is beginning to spread but she is still surprised when an old school friend of her husband asks her for help. He is the vicar of Luckenlaw, a village in the wilds of Fife. Not long ago archaeologists excavating a sealed burial chamber found the remains of a young girl killed by violent means. Since the skeleton was reinterred in the local churchyard, the women of the village have suffered a spate of attacks." "Does the girl's ghost walk abroad? Or did the devil put a curse on the chamber that has now struck Luckenlaw? Are the attacks prompted by the anger some men feel about the establishment of a branch of the Scottish Woman's Rural Institute in the village? Dandy, under the guise of a speaker in Household Management, gently but intelligently inveigles her way into the community and starts to untangle the threads."--BOOK JACKET.