内容简介：
Sally, aged eighteen and anxious to experience life, evades her schoolteacher aunt in Scotland and takes a job in the cosmetics department of an old-established and prestigious London store. Dry rot in the attic leads to the discovery of old bloodstains connected with a murder hushed up more than a hundred years earlier. In the meantime, Sally becomes more involved than she expected with Sigismondo, the sinister chauffeur to her departmental manager, Madame Francine. The store, now owned by millionaire Oscar J. Schussler, is the scene of both modern drug-running and ancient murder.