An autopsy shows the fatal fall of Wendell Merrick in the church where we was to wed Eunice McGinty was murder, and the victim recently had sex with another man. Murdoch must even go undercover as a gay man, against his deep Catholic devotion, to discover several closet homosexuals. He also goes trough conceivable motives regarding inheritance and jealousy, but also other dark secrets.
—KGF Vissers