It is around 1958, and Elliott Nash of Long Island, New York State, finds his wife unwrapping a miniature gazebo. Nell surprises her husband with the news that this is the model of an eighteenth-century gazebo she has purchased at auction for $500. The gazebo started life in an English garden before being exported to the United States some years earlier. Nell intends to erect the gazebo in their garden and to enjoy views over Long Island Sound, but her husband has murderous intentions…