This is one of Elizabeth Cadell's vaguely unspecified entertainments, somewhere between mystery and romance and also spanning two continents. It assembles, happenstantially, Mrs. Stratton, recently widowed and the author of a first best-selling novel; Gail, who works for her publishers and is asked to accompany her to a house in the Basque country; Mrs. Westerby, Mrs. Stratton's sister-in-law, an outlandish if not outrageous woman who has battened on her; and her godson (the romance). They all keep bumping into each other and Mrs. Westerby's motives seem most suspect until the final confrontation.... Sort of soothing--like consomme.