How can you solve a murder before it''s happened?''This is my challenge for you,'' the woman in white said. ''I want you to solve my murder.''London, 1930s: Rachel Savernake has been invited to a private view of an art exhibition at a fashionable gallery. The artist, Damaris Gethin, known as ''the Queen of Surrealism'', is debuting a show featuring live models pretending to be waxworks of famous killers. Before her welcoming speech, Damaris asks a haunting favour of the amateur sleuth: she wants Rachel to solve her murder. As Damaris takes to a stage set with a guillotine, the lights go out. There is a cry and the blade falls. Damaris has executed herself.While Rachel questions why Damaris would take her own life ¿ and just what she meant by ''solve my murder'' ¿ fellow party guest Jacob Flint is chasing a lead on a glamorous socialite with a sordid background. As their paths merge, this case of false identities, blackmail, and fedora-adorned doppelg¿ers, wi