13-year-old Eva-Lotta Lisander runs as fast as her legs can carry her. This time it is not the battle between the White Rose and the Red Rose that makes her run. There is a dead man in a bush by the Manor. It is the percentager Gren who lies there... The sleepy little town is shaken by the terrible crime and master detective Kalle Blomkvist and his friends are thrown into life-threatening adventures.The second book about Master Detective Blomkvist is illustrated by Eva Laurell in the first editions, but was later also illustrated by Eric Palmquist with a cover by Ilon Wikland.