But he's not "big enough" to solve a murder.or is he? Officially, he is off the case. There is a local constable, Hamish Macbeth. One of them fishing her body from the lake-she was strangled and wrapped in chains. Still, it is somewhat of a shock when Lady Jane ends up being the catch of the day. More than one person wishes Lady Jane was dead. It isn't too long before the others start talking about her. She deliberately sets out to annoy and aggravate everyone she encounters. When the novel opens, they are preparing to welcome this week's clients: Marvin and Amy Roth, Lady Jane Winters, Jeremy Blythe, Alice Wilson, Charlie Baxter, Major Peter Frame, and Daphne Gore. John and his wife, Heather, own a fishing school in Lochdubh. People who travel up here to the wilds of Scotland expect to be instructed by some great hairy Rob Roy, making jokes about saxpence and saying it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht and lang may your lum reek and ghastly things like that.' Then I always feel I have to apologize for being English. 'I hate the start of the week,' said John Cartwright fretfully.
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