Agatha has fallen in love with a local gardener and plans a charity ball to get a chance to dance with him. However, at the ball, he doesn't show up and Agatha goes looking for him only to discover he has been murdered.
Gloria French was a jolly widow. When she moved to Cotswolds Hills, she had a habit of borrowing things and not giving them back. It was a shock when she was found dead-poisoned by a bottle of elderberry wine.