The picturesque Scottish village has long served as a haven for artists, fishermen and those eccentric gentlemen who skillfully combined both of these passions. Sandy Campbell, who died under extremely mysterious circumstances, was one of them. Amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey quickly realizes that in this case there are not one or two, but six suspects - six artists who hated the murdered man for different reasons, but to the same extent . However, how can you find out which of them is guilty if all six of them are hiding something? The peace of a quiet village in East Anglia is disrupted - a corpse is found in the local cemetery. It would seem that what is unusual here? But the mutilated body belongs to the victim of a mysterious murder...At the request of the rector of the parish church, Lord Peter Wimsey takes up the case, but during the investigation more and more questions arise. Is it really the first time that the detective will not be able to name the killer? And for whom does the bell toll this time?