As the boat moved silently over the water, the thing at the end of the rope always followed. Sometimes it came near the boat and sometimes it puttded away like something alive. As it moved through the water, changes seemed to pass over the dead man\u00b4s face. For the thing that followed at the end of the rope was the body of a drowned man.  At the inquest the dead man was identified as Mr John Harman, who had recently returned from abroad. John Harman had not been drowned, but murdered. But how had he died and who had killed him?