Summer 1936.
Several years later, another horrif ic murder, again linked to a Hitchcock movie, drives Penrose back to the scene of the original crime to uncover the shocking truth..
The following day, as Fear and suspicion take over in a setting where nothing--and no one--is quite what it seems, Chief Inspector Archie Penrose becomes increasingly unsatisfied with the way the investigation is ultimately resolved.
But things get out of hand when one of Hollywood\'s leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village.
Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine\'s novel, A Shilling for Candles.
Mystery writer Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion, Wales, to celebrate her fortieth birthday.
Summer 1936