Lady Chase has recently taken up residence in Pastor Campion’s area at Moreton Hall. She is bent on doing good works like helping with a school. Her nephew Sir Marcus Bramwell and his family have come for a stay. Campion is not impressed with him.
While out walking one day, Campion comes across the governess employed by Bramwell and her two charges. Moments after departing from them he hears screams. Running back he finds the governess in the nearby stream pointing to the body of a man in the water. Later, when he goes to check on the governess, Campion finds that she is missing.
Dr. Toone, a good friend of Dr. Hansard examines the body and determines that he had been suffocated. Who was he, and why did he have the ring of the late Lord Chase? Hansard’s wife Maria manages to execute a fair likeness of the dead man in a sketch.
Campion and his groom set off to London in search of information on the dead man and Lady Chase’s missing son. The day after, Hansard also travels to London. What will they find there or will they get into more trouble?
Author Judith Cutler’s second in the series about Pastor Campion is full of mystery and action. Success also leads to disaster, which in turns leads to the unravelling of the mysteries. A good, quick read.
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