Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock off the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous host mysteriusly absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. Then one of the party dies suddenly, and they realise there may be a murderer who might strike again…and again…
And all the time, copies of a macabre nursery rhyme hang in each room, a nursery rhyme with an omen of death for all ten of them.