<p>Sherborne in 1436 was a quarrelsome town, the townspeople and the Abbot at loggerheads over the narrowing of the entrance to Allhallows, the chapel-of-ease attached to the Abbey, and the positioning of a font in the same chapel. Against this background, a young man is found murdered in the Lady Chapel of the Abbey, and subsequent strange deaths occur. &nbsp;Matthias Barton &nbsp;feels compelled to investigate and being unused to murder, stumbles along until suddenly things become clearer to him.</p>