In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Penny is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
Toda a gente consegue ser impopular, mas é preciso um mestre como John Cleese para se ser realmente irritante. O segredo, diz ele, é fazer a outra pessoa acreditar que é completamente sem querer e este é apenas o primeiro dos muitos truques que ele nos ensina! Com a ajuda dos companheiros dos Monty Python Michael Palin e Graham Chapman, de Connie Booth de Fawlty Towers e de goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor, Cleese demonstra a sua incomparável habilidade em manter as suas vítimas à temperatura ideal, mesmo um grau antes de as pôr a ferver!
A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.