A new adventure for Bill & Gerry Mudd following Death on the Heath - Bill Bentine and his new wife Gerry arrive in the outer Hebrides for a quiet honeymoon. It's the last place they expect Gerry, a crime writer, to find any inspiration. But as dead bodies appear, along with a Gothic Castle and an eccentric laird as suspicious as Count Dracula, the honeymoon couple are soon involved in murder and kidnapping that could threaten their lives