'Dear Jack, I think I'm about to be arrested and charged with murder.'
Tom Morris, busy cataloguing the library of Plumwood Hall, is in a fix.
Three days before, a member of the family had keeled over at afternoon
tea after eating a slice of fruit cake laced with poison. And Tom has
been fingered by the weasel-like Inspector Hyde as chief suspect. The
young scholar turns to the only person who can help: his old Oxford
tutor, C. S. ('Jack') Lewis. As they investigate, mystery piles on
mystery. Why did the victim's husband disappear twelve months before?
Why is a strange tattooed foreigner living in a cottage on the moors?
Who is the wild man of the woods? And most puzzling of all: how did a
massive dose of cyanide get into just one slice of cake? This
mind-twisting case has all the hallmarks of a classic Country House
Mystery. Woven throughout the story is an engaging conversation about
Lewis's Christian worldview.