Antony Maitland #22 A suicide note prompts Mrs. Antony Maitland to visit mystery writer Emma Anstey for a few days in the small Yorkshire village of Burton Cecil. The picturesque countryside cannot disguise the bizarre and insidious goings-on she finds there -- poison pen letters, a shocking suicide, counterfeit coins, and murder that disrupt the closely knit community with wild rumors and vicious accusations.