An old friend informally invites Commander Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) to look into death threats being made against the partners of a respected publishing house. While visiting their offices - a splendid Venetian building with a haunted past on the banks of the Thames - Dalgliesh is on hand when the first body is discovered. The coroner's verdict is suicide and the case is closed - but as the partners of Peverell Press wage their own internal war over the future of the family firm the mysterious hate campaign intensifies...and a partner dies in bizarre circumstances. Recalled to the case, Dalgliesh must decide if the motive lies in the present...or the horrors and betrayals of another time. As he struggles to untangle the mystery, the case takes a strange turn. His prime suspects begin to die...
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