Paperback edition of the fifth "Matthew Bartholomew" chronicle, published alongside Little, Brown hardback edition of the latest in the series, "A Masterly Murder". Bartholomew gets involved in a land dispute in deepest Suffolk, but soon finds himself investigating a series of unnatural deaths in the village. Put down to the curse of a dead plague village, will the Fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, be wily enough to work out the real motive behind the murders and who will gain from them?