Barnaby and DS Scott investigate the murder of Patrick Pennyman, an undertaker in the village of Fletcher's Cross. The man's wife thinks he committed suicide but the pathologist determines he was killed. The man died soon after his return home after attending a service at the local spiritualist church, itself the source of some controversy in the village. As the investigation p...。一个年轻的女人的丈夫是一个著名的民谣歌手,在丈夫去世后自己一个人过着艰难的生活,然而一个纽约的记者认为她丈夫的死因有鬼,并找上门逼迫她面对她所失去的一切……。