In a hot summer of 1935, on the way to North Yorkshire, Olivia Adamson meets an eccentric elderly lady. Lady Elspeth Pongleton persuades her new acquaintance to spend a few days at her old manor, where she plans to introduce the girl as her companion.
Having agreed, Olivia has no idea that in Yorkshire she’ll be held for a long time by an investigation of a crime whose roots go far back into the past. In Madlingtone she will have to take on not only the role of companion, but also that of a hypocritical intriguer, a suspect, and a detective. In the investigation, she’ll be helped by her twin brother Philip, a young Miss Imogen Price who dreams of achieving fame on the theatrical stage, and—odd as it may sound—Police Inspector Grоums, who holds very progressive views.
What does Pongleton’s family past hide? And what secrets does the abandoned chapel hold? The answers to these questions are there, in Madlingtone.