Rachel James is shot through her kitchen window while having breakfast early one morning       She was having an affair with Dr       Julian Storrs, an Oxford professor who is a candidate for Master of Lonsdale College       When her next door neighbor is also killed however, Morse determines that the shooting of James may have been in error       Morse also suspects that he may have been a blackmailer       Both Storrs an his rival for the Masters position, Denis Cornford had secrets that would make them suspects       Morse determines that several others also had things to hide and any one of them could have committed the murders