Read by Garard Green.

[1970]
Young Luke Latimer reluctantly becomes involved in the search for a diary that
will prove his late, learned, and wealthy Scottish grandfather was a serial wife-
killer. The late professor Garvie-Brown of Edinburgh University had departed this
life full of honors, professional esteem, and leaving a considerable estate. But
now, many years later, evidence has emerged of a skeleton in his cupboard. Seven
skeletons, actually. Seven wives, four bigamous and all murdered. His legitimate
descendants include a judge, a doctor, another academic, an architect - and an
elderly widow with conscience. It is this inconvenient quality that is about to
drag the young Luke Latimer, along with a devious private detective, into the
affairs of a family desperate - even murderously - determined to prevent public
scandal. Narrator Garard Green handles these with alacrity and is also adept at
slowing his narrative just a hair when something dramatic is about to happen.
The action takes place in London and Edinburgh, necessitating a variety of
English and Scots accents. His obviously mature voice gives an objectivity to
what is essentially Luke's story though it's told in the third person. All in
all, it's hard to fault this full-length reading of one of Ferrars' more than
seventy books.

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