An advertisement in the local newspaper announces that there is going to be a murder this evening at Little Paddocks - but this is news even to the people who live at Little Paddocks! Interested villagers and friends appear that evening - perhaps it's a game, they think. The lights go out, there is silence, and then a gun is fired... It seems this was no game. Someone really has been murdered!. This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 4 is equivalent to CEF level B2 with a word count of 20,000 - 26,000 words.