In a moment of madness respectable head teacher Edward Palmer approaches a rent boy on a council estate but the boy pulls a knife and is killed in the struggle. Palmer fears he has been seen and turns to his quick-witted daughter who devises a way out for him. However the dogged Inspector Quarry is breathing down his neck and he needs to keep his resolve if he is to escape detection

When a centuries old male body is accidentally discovered in her garden by couple of builders, Elizabeth Marton becomes convinced that her own house is haunted and she does all her best to find out that truth about the man that was found dead in her garden. So, she beginns researching by looking to her family history…