The most mysterious crime and the most unusual investigation of Scotland Yard. A true story based on an amazing, exciting novel! 1860. The wealthy country mansion of high-ranking official Samuel Kent. It would seem that nothing out of the ordinary can happen there... But on a summer night a monstrous murder is committed in the house, the victim of which is Kent's three-year-old son. The case is entrusted to Jack Whicher - the famous detective of Scotland Yard, a legendary man who became the prototype of detective Cuff - the hero Wilkie Collins' novel The Moonstone. Whicher immediately understands that a person “from the outside” simply could not get into the Kent mansion. This means that all the inhabitants of the house are under suspicion - from servants to family members...

Note. The abstract somewhat distorts reality. The book is a documentary-fiction detective story.