When newlyweds Sir James and Lady Cecilia Branstoke visit a widow to console her on the death of her husband, they discover some things don't add up about the death of the young lord. Worse, a man who won't state his purpose, yet clearly is with the military, wants carte blanche to search the dead man's library. What begins as sympathy and concern for a troubled neighbor escalates into a mystery with reverberations at the highest...