Who shot farmer Harris during a pheasant shoot? He has built cow sheds and pig pens near the entrance to Comfree Abbey, and Sir Hugo and his new wife Deborah fear the smell will put off their prospective guests when they open the Abbey as a superior private hotel. Dodie Fanshaw investigates all those at the shoot. The police, however, seem to suspect Sir Hugo. But almost anyone could have done it, and a few villagers had their own quarrels with Farmer Harris.