Loss of life is inevitable, or could it be .

George Arrow, a good-looking, independently wealthy and single guy of thirty-six, offers just been identified as having a weak center. A heart therefore fragile, his doctor tells him, he must go to amazing lengths in order to avoid putting the slightest stress upon it. On his doctor’s tips George packages up his lifestyle in Dublin, and planks a train towards the Bay of Galway where he intends to live quietly in a hotel and await the unavoidable end.

On the teach he fulfills John Burden so that as about Death At Crane’s Court they talk, George realizes that his new acquaintance is an odious man. So it is with some alarm that he realizes the very unpleasant John Burden is certainly, just like George himself, about to start a brand-new section of his existence at Crane’s Courtroom.

As that new lease of life progresses, George realizes that of his first impressions of Burden-that he’s a selfish, nasty man-are entirely correct. And George isn’t the only person who thinks so.

So when Burden is found deceased, stabbed through the heart with a kitchen blade, it’s not a matter of learning as to why he was killed, but of narrowing down the field of individuals who wanted him gone.

Inspector Mike Kenny have to identify the killer, but the place to start?