Perce Spender, a working-class Londoner, is unexpectedly transformed
into the twelfth Earl of Ellesmere when a distant relative dies. But he
would rather be warming a bar stool in his local pub, and he's taken up
residence at Chetton Hall only until arrangements can be made to sell
it. Getting rid of the family estate displeases at least one of Perce's
greedy offspring, however, and on the morning after a family party the
new Earl is found dead.