In 1921, in Greater London, the chesty and disbelieving Firenze Cathcart is celebrated for expose fraud and help the police force to collar con artist. The alien Henry M. Robert Mallory state her that the schoolmaster of a boarding school in Rookford had invite her to go to Cumbria to look into a shade that is frighten the student to decease. He besides state that many old age ago there was a slaying in the estate and late pupil Bruno Walter Portman had die.