A wealthy young heir, a cash-strapped gentleman tutor, and a third man whose name may not even be real walk into the mist of a remote Scottish estate for a morning’s shooting. Only two of them come back.

In this episode, we travel to Ardlamont House on the wild Argyll coast in 1893, where a single gunshot on a fog-bound moor sparks whispers of class, money, and life insurance. Was it simply a tragic sporting accident, the kind Victorian ledgers recorded without a second glance — or something far more calculated?

We follow the story from a seemingly respectable household to the heart of the Scottish courts and the Victorian press, unpacking how one death in the Highlands became a national obsession — and why, more than a century later, the questions it raises still refuse to settle.

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