This epic tale unfolds through dark, crime-laden nights lived by the wealthy Rothschild family in the grand Karamazov Manor, nestled in the northern British town of East Grinstead. In the winter of 1965, a scandal erupts, stoked by a hostile London newspaper that hounds the brothers of the manor. The turmoil drives John, the eldest son, to enlist the famed detective—McMahan, the “Artillery Boy”—to investigate the murder of his mother, the family matriarch Tilda, slain on the night of her birthday.
With the arrival of this fearless investigator, a torrent of blood is more victims fall to terrifying crimes, and the residents of the manor are swept into a whirlpool of hardships and sinister conspiracies. At last, through the mad journey he endures, the celebrated detective grasps the final threads that lead him to the shocking identity of the killer.