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Dr Burgess, on his way home from a party at the glamorous Francesca Ward's riding school, knocks a stranger down in the road at Newton Magna, and the stranger mysteriously vanishes.
Barnaby identifies the missing man as Sean O'Connell, a disgraced Irish vet, then he recognizes the…
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Dr Burgess, on his way home from a party at the glamorous Francesca Ward's riding school, knocks a stranger down in the road at Newton Magna, and the stranger mysteriously vanishes.
Barnaby identifies the missing man as Sean O'Connell, a disgraced Irish vet, then he recognizes the village's new squire as Melvyn Stockard, a retired villain.
A body found in a well proves to be the father of the man Stockard's daughter is about to marry...
Everyone knows he was against the marriage, but is Stockard a killer, and where does the missing Irishman fit in?
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