The quiet Cornwall hut was stirred up by a cruel crime: an elderly millionaire was shot in the middle of broadcast. The police recognized their impotence, but the locals quickly found the scapegoat: a quiet gentleman, a former business partner of the murdered who received his condition according to the testament. Rumors and gossip are spreading like a fire – that and look, a crowd will come to the old man’s house, ready to perform a lynching. A young lawyer, the bridegroom of his beautiful daughter, is taken to clear the name of the gentleman. But in search of the truth, the amateur detective will face things, as if who had come down from the pages of a horror novel. How did the old fortuneteller manage to predict the murder in advance? Who lives on heather wastelands, in a hut under the canopy of ancient ruins? And what role did the mysterious scarlet skull in the silver crown, who appeared to the victim before death, played in this drama?
Author
Hum Fergus
Translator
Solovyova L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
Favorite detectives Agatha Christie
Genre
Classical foreign prose
16+
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