Three husbands have a routine where they go away together each year to what they tell their wives is a business convention, but is actually a sex resort. What they don't realize is that their wives aren't exactly sitting around doing nothing while they're gone . . .The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are summoned by a newspaper notice to the house of Letitia Blacklock, anticipating a murder game. But things become too real when someone is shot dead.