Murder Most Familiar

"A man does not leave school at fourteen, make a fortune by forty, and go on to become a skilful and powerful politician without ruthlessness."

Business magnate and MP Sir Hugh Mason is the kind of man it is very easy to hate, if you are not susceptible to his particular kind of charm. He has of necessity hurt a lot of people on his way up. Taciturn and enigmatic, even his extended family do not know him well. At a weekend gathering for his sixtieth birthday, it slowly becomes apparent that ...