Deputy Assistant Commissioner Charlie Hillian is killed on the night of his retirement party. Hillian was at one time a senior officer in Oxford and was in fact Morse's boss. He was also writing a book about his most memorable cases, including one about the unsolved death of an 8-year-old girl some 18 years ago. The suspect in that case, Frederick Redpath, was at Hillian's house the day he died and that chapter from the manuscript is missing. There are other suspects however, including Hillian's ghost writer who will now receive all of the book's royalties; a handyman who was working on the property; and Redpath's daughter, who knew the little girl who was killed all those years before. Morse comes into conflict with with a colleague DCI Dawson, who was one of Hillian's protégés, as they again look into the little girl's death.。足有家狗大小的肥老鼠左右溜达了一圈，它试探着进入了草场，没着急啃食那些刚长出来的嫩草，而是跑到铁罐前喝了几口水，水源地现在并不多，所以突然出现一大罐子清水这不是变异老鼠所能忍受的诱惑，喝饱水后看它那鼠……