内容简介：
The late professor Garvie-Brown of Edinburgh University had departed this life full of honors, professional esteem, and leaving a considerable estate. But now, many years later, evidence has emerged of a skeleton in his cupboard. Seven skeletons, actually. Seven wives, four bigamous and all murdered. His legitimate descendants include a judge, a doctor, another academic, an architect -- and an elderly widow with conscience. It is this inconvenient quality that is about to drag the young Luke Latimer, along with a devious private detective, into the ambit of a family desperate -- even murderously -- determined to prevent public scandal.