"With the logic of betrayed the Asquith women instigate revenge - murder dressed in its Sunday best." Revenge fiction - set within the four seasons of 1947. The Asquith women have been mastered, yet they are controlling together what they have been mastered by - Sam Asquith, land-owner. Found. Dead. **Sorrow turns to revenge** when Stella Asquith - the vivacious widow - and her land-girl daughters, aided by their psychopathic farm-man, discover half-share of Sam's wealth has been bequeathed to a kept-in-the-dark illegitmate son. **Bitter in enmity**, the murderous foursome instigate farming accidents which back-fire with dangerous risks and results. Killing Sam's son proves to be a deadly game of roulette.