For each member of the Godwin family, Oxmoon remains a prize, a challenge, a dangerous obsession, for its memories, its beauties and the power and wealth its possession conveys. When at last a Godwin heir restores it to is former grandeur, he does so at the cost of a crime that eventually leads him to his own mysterious death -- a mystery that will only be solved when a later Godwin sets out to seize Oxmoon for himself...
