To Peggy's delight, teenage heartthrobs the Queenmakers are playing Great Slaughter. However, the band's frontman is found dead from an allergic reaction to a bee sting. This is confirmed to be murder by Sister Boniface when she finds the dead bee and Wallis's shirt collar smeared with glue and pollen. Gillespie and Livingstone investigate the rivalries among the band, their conniving manager and Wallis's pregnant secret wife, who he was planning to divorce