Commander dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to d...Commander dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that father baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the patients at toynton grange.