A crisp autumn morning and the Hunt is in full cry across the Northumbrian countryside.
From a view to a death . . . And a death it was, when the Master of Foxhounds and several of the Hunt's socially prominent members discovered the body of their most notorious local opponent in a bush.
Investigating the socially prominent can be tricky, and the Chief Constable decided to call in Scotland Yard. Which brought Inspector Crow to the wide, sweeping countryside of Northumbria, and confronted the young, eager, local inspector with an approach to crime he had not met before. But Crow, for all his intuition, was hamstrung by his own preconceived ideas about victim and suspects.
Only when patient police work revealed that there were unexpected sides to the do-gooding victim and those who might have killed him did Crow begin to perceive another possible interpretation of events.
With remarkable skill, Roy Lewis builds up a series of cases and allows Crow and the local inspector to demolish each in turn. One case alone resisted demolition, and another murder seemed to clinch it. But Crow had become wary of 'seemed'...

Genre: Mystery