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Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murderedsavagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist. But his heirs soon find that his last testament contains a strange provisothat his estate shall go to the heir who solves his murder. To secure their future, each Linwood heir must now dig into the past. As their suspicion mountsof each other and of peculiar strangers in the churchless town of Linwood Hollowthey come to suspect that the perpetrator lurks in the mysterious origins of their own birth.
Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murderedsavagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist. But his heirs soon find that his last testament contains a strange provisothat his estate shall go to the heir who solves his murder.
To secure their future, each Linwood heir must now dig into the past. As their suspicion mountsof each other and of peculiar strangers in the churchless town of Linwood Hollowthey come to suspect that the perpetrator lurks in the mysterious origins of their own birth.