Wicky heads to a stately home to clean up after the sad demiseof an estate agent. He's expecting to get a taste of how theother half live. What he finds is a strange time-warped Downtonnightmare, a crumbling old pile ruled by a despotichousekeeper, Mrs Barton, who keeps armies of cooks, maidsand groundsmen in line with nothing more than a crisplydisapproving stare.Will Wicky get the job done before thereturn of the fearsome Lady Rice-Burrows, or will he get theboot through the tradesman's entrance? Either way, Wickyslowly discovers there is a little bit more to the estateagent's death than meets the eye.