
The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems at first to be by natural causes He was elderly after all But Penhallow wasn't well liked He had ruled over his estate with an iron will & a sharp tongue He had played one relative off against another He was so bad tempered & mean that both his servants & his family hated him It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death Penhallow was in fact murdered Poisoned With his family gathered to celebrate his birthday & servants that both feared & despised him there are more than a dozen prime suspects But which one of them turned hatred into murder?