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The story in 11 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A stranger rents Falcon's Nest

   The story opens on a bright morning at Thurwell Court, a country house near the northern sea. Mr. Thurwell, the squire, breakfasts on a stone terrace with his daughter Helen. She is tired of tennis parties and of the same small circle of neighbours.

   The post brings two pieces of news. Sir Geoffrey Kynaston is coming home to Kynaston Towers after almost fifteen years abroad. The second piece is a puzzle. Two men want to rent Falcon's Nest, a strange yellow cottage on the cliff. One is Chapman, whom the squire dislikes. The other is a stranger who signs himself Bernard Brown and names only a bank and a firm of solicitors.

   The lawyers will say nothing of his background. Helen says she cannot stand Chapman and will vote for Mr. Brown. A bored vote for a stranger sets the whole story moving.

2. 2

   A murder on the glorious twelfth

   Two months pass, and Helen has still not seen the tenant.

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3. 3

   The tenant appears beside the body

   The men run off to search the woods, and Mr. Thurwell leaves Helen to guard the body.

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4. 4

   An unfurnished room and a warning note

   In the cottage the men lay Sir Geoffrey on a sofa in the empty front room.

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5. 5

   Helen weighs a murderer against a poet

   Six weeks after the funeral, Helen meets Mr. Brown lying in the cliff pines with a volume of Shelley.

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6. 6

   Rachel Kynaston's dying charge

   By the fire that evening Brown tells Helen they have met before, in a ruined Italian palace.

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7. 7

   Levy and Son go to work

   Now the book turns to London, to a gloomy little office off the Strand.

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8. 8

   The man Maddison and the forced cabinet

   Six months on, in a London drawing room, guests whisper about a famous recluse.

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9. 9

   A journey to Italy and an arrest at dinner

   Maddison leaves for Italy, saying he can be back in five days.

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10. 10

    Guilt, shame and who pays for the past

    The first great theme is the long shadow of one old sin.

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11. 11

    How the story is told

    Oppenheim tells his story in the third person, in richly coloured paragraphs.

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