The Van Traylen fund supports a school for orphans on the Scottish island of Bala. Three of its wealthy trustees are murdered, though their deaths are staged as suicide or accident. Three other trustees are on a bus carrying children from the school when the driver suddenly catches on fire, but he is the only one to die. One of the girls on the bus, Mary Valley, is taken to a London hospital, where she has strange seizures. A young psychiatrist and a tabloid journalist interview the girl's mother, hoping to enlist the aid of the hospital's senior member, Sir Mark Ashley.
When the psychiatrist is killed, Ashley enlists the aid of friend and police inspector Colonel Charles Bingham. The two take their investigation to Bala. In the meantime, Mary Valley's mother also journeys to Bala, hoping to find her daughter, although she has come under suspicion for the murders of the trustees and an explosion on a boat near the island that apparently kills several others of the school's trustees. Ashley and Bingham eventually uncover the sinister truth behind the murders.
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