The disa earance of Sir Julius Hanbury - and the theft of several of his erotic aintings - rovide a new uzzle for Morse to solve. Assisted by DS Lewis, Morse interviews everyone at Hanbury House and it is in the course of searching the grounds that he finds Sir Julius' body, a ro riately enough, in the family mausoleum. The athologist notes that he was the victim of a frenzied attack but the lack of blood at scene leaves the olice to conclude that he murdered elsewhere. Sir Julius was a candidate to become the Master of an Oxford college and was known to have a have had a bitter rivalry with another candidate for the osition. When Roger Meadows, a friend of the Hanbury's au air, is killed in a car accident, Morse concludes that that he too was murdered. Jealousy, revenge and greed all lay art in the deaths
