The story goes backwards and forwards from 1940 to 1976.
In 1940 Eldritch Swan was imprisoned in Ireland for life. The details of his crime are not known and must not be talked about. In 1976 he is suddenly released and asks his sister-in-law Avis, wife of his deceased brother, if he can stay with her at her B&B in Torquay for a while. Avis's son Stephen had always been told that Eldritch was killed in a London bombing during the war. He did not know that Eldritch was still alive.
Whilst in Torquay Eldritch is approached by a solicitor and given a mission to complete. He asks Stephen to help him. Together they have to find evidence that some Picasso paintings which had been owned by Eldritch's employer's family had been stolen and replaced with forged copies.
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