Introduction

When Meg Jeacock let out the furnished cottage next to her house she did not care that her new tenant had certain rather sinister characteristics - he''d paid three months'' rent in advance. But Meg''s husband Marcus sensed he was a crook.

The Mystery Unfolds

And when the stranger shows an inexplicable interest in Shandon Priory, the big house nearby, whose elderly owner has recently died, it becomes clear that there is trouble brewing - which, when it comes, takes the form of double murder ...