One morning, Rachel James was shot from the kitchen window while eating breakfast. She had an affair with Dr. Julian Storrs, a professor at Oxford University, who was a candidate for a master's degree at Lonsdale College. However, when her next-door neighbor was also killed, Morse thought James's shooting might be wrong. Morse also suspected that he might be a blackmailer. Both Stoles and his competitor Dennis Conford have secrets, which will make them suspicious. Morse confirmed that several other people also had hidden things, and any one of them might have committed murder.
