A string of devastating murders brings Scotland Yard's Richard Jury to the lonely moors—where nothing is as it seems...

Summary

The forbidding landscape of Dartmoor seems the perfect setting for murder. But even the hardy locals are shocked by the killings of three children. Jury joins forces with Brian Macalvie, the hot-tempered local constable, who believes the murders stem from an old injustice that he wishes to right. Their investigation, which starts at a desolate pub called Help the Poor Struggler, leads them to the estate of a ten-year-old orphaned heiress—and into the murky truths linking the past with a killing yet to come...