Tidying up the famous yew tree hedge at Aumerle Court was never Pete Carter's favorite job. He likes it even less this Monday morning when he reaches the exact center of the maze -- an allegory for death since the time of the Minotaur. He is supervised as ever by the redoubtable Miss Daphne, chatelaine of the Court, who is surveying the maze from an upstairs window. She, too, realizes that death is in their midst...