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One warmer summer months weekend in 1949 - but not our 1949 - the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English people, like a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those people; her parents were both leading characters in the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated calmness with Herr Hitler eight years before. Despite her parents' evident disapproval, Lucy is committed - gladly - to a London Jew. It had been therefore a significant delight to Lucy when she and her partner, David, found themselves invited to the retreat. It's even more startling when, on the retreat's first night, a significant politician of the Farthing set in place is available gruesomely murdered, with numerous signals that the killing was ritualistic. It quickly becomes clear to Lucy that she and David were brought to the retreat to be able to pin the murder on him. Major politics machinations are in stake, including an initiative in Parliament, backed by the Farthing set in place, to limit the right to vote to college or university graduates. But whoever's behind the murder, and the frame-up, didn't reckon on the principal investigator from Scotland Garden being a man with very private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts and looking beyond the obvious. As the snare slowly but surely shuts on Lucy and David, they get started to visit a way to avoid it - a means fraught with peril in a darkening world.
