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A woman in black stares at the sea, her body transparent, eyes brimming with tears. Hoping to get a better look at the woman, psychic medium Addison Lockhart leans out over the manor's windowsill, gasping when she feels an intense pressure pressing down on her back - someone thrusting her forward. She grabs the side of the window to brace herself, but it's too late. She's already falling.

Psychic medium Addison Lockhart jolts awake, her brow sweaty, head throbbing. The dream had seemed so real. The twins, 11-year-olds Vivian and Grace, were so full of life that she wanted to reach out, touch them. But she couldn't. The girls had been dead for 40 years. Why, then, had they appeared to her, summoning her help? Were their untimely deaths really an accident, or was something far more sinister to blame?

Auf einer der windumtosten Faröer-Inseln fassen Har und Manor eine tiefe Zuneigung zueinander, die auch über den Tod hinaus noch fortbesteht...

Grasceby Manor is the jewel of the village. But now it desperately needs renovation so that Lord Grasceby can open parts of it to the public in the summer. As work commences, strange sightings of a boy and a servant girl disturb the workmen and James finds himself increasingly drawn into trying to discover: The identity of the boy. The connection to the ghostly servant. Whether he can find out who or what caused their deaths. And why a cat seems determined to trip him up!

Arthur Hastings, amigo del famoso detective Hercule Poirot, visita Marsdon Manor, una mansión inglesa, donde ocurre un misterioso asesinato. El señor Maltravers, un hombre rico y enfermo, es encontrado muerto en su habitación, aparentemente de un ataque al corazón. Sin embargo, Poirot sospecha que hay más de lo que parece y comienza a investigar.