Someone disliked Eddathorpe's distinguished industrialist Sir Jeremy Blatt enough to bash him on the head, pack him in a lorry and despatch him on a North Sea ferry . . .
Detective Chief Inspector Robert Graham has too many suspects: several wives, one of them Sir Jeremy's own; the exploited employees of his frozen-chicken empire; a son who despised him; even a policeman . . . and that is without taking into account the animal rights protests and the unwanted help from Ron Hacker, Graham's favourite ex-detective superintendent, newly installed as Blatt's security chief.
Graham picks his way through a sorry story of cold-blooded murder, warm-blooded love and unchecked greed to uncover a solution that surprises even him.
