Robinson’s death looks like suicide . . . but is it really murder?
Can Hugo - calm, honest, fair, intelligent, courageous Hugo - really
be a perfect murderer?
When the body of the unpopular English master, Mr. Robinson, is taken from
the river, Jonathan doesn’t feel very involved in the tragedy. But it is
disturbing to discover that one of the other masters, Charles Hugo, has
lied to the police about not seeing Robinson on the evening before his
death. Jonathan really likes Hugo, and at first he tries to put all suspicions
out of his mind. But he soon becomes convinced that the coroner’s verdict
of suicide is the wrong one.