When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own
farmyard, at first it seems like an accident - despite the fact that he
was widely disliked. Only his daughter Lilah is prepared to defend his
memory. And when, slowly, Lilah begins to suspect foul play, no one is
eager to help her investigate. Suspicion becomes certainty when two more
deaths occur - and both of them are unmistakably murder.
The difficulty lies in discovering who, among Guy's many enemies, hated
him enough to want him dead - and who went on killing to conceal the
truth. There is certainly no shortage of suspects and it falls to local
policeman Den Cooper to investigate the mysterious deaths ...