In the classic standalone mystery by Queen of Crime Agatha Christie, an elderly priest is murdered, quite possibly doomed by a woman's deathbed confession and by the secrets kept safely locked behind the closed doors of a mysterious local pub. When an elderly priest takes the last confession of a dying woman, she gives him a list of names and a terrible secret. But before he can act on this information, an assailant attacks from the fog, searching the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what did the dying woman reveal to cause the priest's violent end? Mark Easterbrook and his sidekick Ginger Corrigan are determined to find out. Maybe the three women who run The Pale Horse public house, and who are rumored to practice the "Dark Arts," can provide some answers?.