Crowned skull

Quiet Cornish countryside has stirred up a brutal crime: in broad daylight shot dead an elderly millionaire. The police have acknowledged the weakness, however, local residents quickly found a scapegoat: the quiet gentleman, a former business partner of slain, obtained according to the will. Rumors and gossip spread like a fire – and look, to the house of the old man are the crowd, ready to mete out vigilante justice. To clear the name of a gentleman takes a young lawyer, groom his beautiful daughter. But the truth behind the detective-lover have to deal with things, though descended from the pages of a horror novel. As the old fortune-teller managed to predict the murder? Who lives on the Heath, in a hut in the shadow of ancient ruins? And what role in this drama was played by the mysterious red skull in a silver crown, which appeared to be the victim before his death?