The fourth novel by the famous English writer David Dickinson (b. 1946) about Lord Powerscourt (the publishing house has already introduced the three previous ones to Russian readers). England, 1901. The cathedral in Compton, in the west of England, is preparing for a great holiday - for a thousand years now, within its walls people have been praying to the Almighty. And then the parishioners learn with horror that the well-respected rector of the cathedral has left this mortal world, and did so under very strange and mysterious circumstances. No one is allowed to see the body of the deceased. This event is followed by a series of equally strange and terrible deaths. Lord Powerscourt is trying to unravel the mysteries of the murders, and along the way he and his wife Lady Lucy, who, as always, next to her brave and insightful husband, face dangerous trials...