This is a light hearted murder mystery. It is the story of how the residents living in and around a pleasant peaceful Cavendish Row, a dead-end road, cope with the murder of Harold Harvard a rather odd fellow who is not much liked by some of his neighbours, although he does have a few friends who say he is misunderstood; and the threat from a very unpopular Mr. Bottomley a developer, who not long after having moved in with his equally unfriendly snobby family, immediately sets about making plans to demolish his own home and hopefully two other houses in the road running parallel behind his house with the intension of replacing them with flats or houses. Needless to say this sets his irate neighbours and residents in three roads into battle mode.