The Burleigh school was dying. It would be called a mercy killing were it not for the little band of inept, eccentric, or otherwise unemployable teachers who depended on this absolutely awful English boy's academy for their meager livelihoods. A lack of funds, facilities, and foresight had brought Burleigh to the very edge of extinctions. Now someone planned to give it one final, deadly push.<BR>Malice was afoot behind the ivied walls, trailing hard on the heels of Hilary Frome, Headmaster Crumwallis's unfortunate choice for next headboy. For when something sinister popped up in the punch on Parents' Evening, when nasty pranks become no joke, the next event at bloody Burleigh was bound to be...simply murder.