A detective story set in and around Llanover Grange, a boys' boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan, in the autumn of 1971. Rhian Evans, a young female history teacher finds herself attracted to one of her pupils and, on Remembrance Sunday, she also chances upon the body of the school's unpopular headmaster.

• 1 – Michaelmas Term, 1971, 14th November
• 2 – 14th November
• 3 – 14th November
• 4 – 4th September
• 5 – 7th September
• 6 – 13th October
• 7 – 21st October
• 8 – 22nd October
• 9 – 5th November
• 10 – 13th November
• 11 – 16th November
• 12 –17th November
• 13 – 17th November
• 14 – 17th November
• 15 – 18th November
• 16 –18th November
• 17 – 18th November
• 18 – 21st November
• 19 –22nd November
• 20 – 22nd November
• 21 – 29th November
• 22 – 17th December
• Epilogue