The Death of a Scoundrel

Guests are arriving at Halberton-Smythe Manor.
The highlight of the program is a meeting with the fashionable London playwright Henry Withering, the fiancé of Priscilla. However, everything goes awry: one of the guests, the insufferable Captain Peter Bartlett, is murdered during a partridge hunt.
Local constable Hamish Macbeth has to find the killer among the guests, which is no easy task: Captain Bartlett turned out to be a real scoundrel, which means everyone had a motive...