Crowned skull

The quiet Cornwall outback stirred up a cruel crime. In the middle of white day, an elderly millionaire was shot dead. The police recognized their impotence, but the locals quickly found the scapegoat: a quiet gentleman, a former business partner of the murdered who received his condition according to the testament. Rumors and gossip are spreading like a fire - look, a crowd will come to the old man’s house, ready to perform a lynching. A young lawyer, the bridegroom of his beautiful daughter, is taken to clear the name of the gentleman. But in search of the truth, the amateur detective will face things, as if who had come down from the pages of a horror novel. How did the old fortuneteller manage to predict the murder in advance? Who lives on heather wastelands, in a hut under the canopy of ancient ruins? And what role did the mysterious scarlet skull in the silver crown, who appeared to the victim before death, played in this drama?