After Murdoch discovers his childhood friend turned private investigator, Freddie Pink, might be implicated in a murder, he enlists his latest invention to find the truth.

When a whiskey baron and his family are murdered, Murdoch puts Parker in the cells with a hit man to see who hired him.

When Murdoch and Ogden use their riverside property as a burial ground to study human decomposition, they dig up more than they imagined.

It is a dark and stormy night. A lonely light burns in the tower of stately Beaton Hall. Suddenly, lightening flashes across the sky and a bloodcurdling scream is heard….