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Stella Reeve lies drowned in the stream which skirts the Essex village of Wynford. Her death seems accidental, for the old wooden footbridge had always been considered dangerous. But Inspector Finch, urgently called to the scene in the early hours, senses an aura of violence about Stella's death: a straight-forward accident or a particularly canny murder? There are four obvious suspects but was there someone else who wanted Stella dead? The whole complicated web of private lives--aspirations, jealousies, prejudices--all come under Finch's patient scrutiny.