On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger one Charles Martin has been found dead It looks like a case of misadventure
- but Grant is not so sure Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased had apparently scrawled on a newspaper he follows a trail to the remote Outer Hebrides & though it is the end of his holiday it is also the beginning of an intriguing investigation into the bizarre circumstances shrouding Charles Martin's death