Two days into their golfing trip, on the green fairways of Wye Castle country club, an intimate party of friends is slashed from six to five.
After an evening replete with wine and studded with heated quarrels, the four old friends and their two attending wives all have a disturbed night’s sleep. None more so than their self-appointed leader, Guy Harrington.
In the half-light of the following morning, the green keeper discovers his corpse splayed in the small hollow of a drained pond.
Superintendent Lambert and Sergeant Hook are puzzled by the odd disposition of the limbs and the complete absence of blood. They come to the disturbing conclusion that the body was moved several hours after death. But why? And how?