Bumbling amateur sleuth and self-published author Clive Thompson begins a new job as a PI's assistant and heads to the upmarket town of Harrogate. Along with his writing group friends, he immerses himself in events at the crime writers' festival in The Old Swan Hotel. Hoping to follow in the footsteps of master sleuth Agatha Christie, Clive investigates a deathbed confession from a father to his son about a house fire. But does it all turn out the...