It's Her Funeral - Tapa blanda

When neighborhood busybody Frances Rassell turns up dead in a construction site owned by Texas millionairess Carolyn Sue Hoopes, the wealthy woman employs the well-mannered Lady Margaret Priam as a spokesman for her company

safe to say that neighborhood busybody Frances Rassell was not well liked, who despised her enough to kill her? An outspoken opponent of a luxury high rise built by the Texas millions of Lady Margaret Priam's dear friend Carolyn Sue Hoopes, Mrs. Rassell claimed to know something unpleasant about everyone. When the loudmouth's lifeless form is found at the construction site, Carolyn Sue employes the ever-unflappable Lady Margaret as a spokesperson for her company to calm local fears.

But she is soon up to her upper-class neck in unexpected trouble. Something's rotten in the borough of Queens, and Lady Margaret had better mind her manners in this strange part of town, lest she find her aristocratic appendages severed from her soigne self . . . ..