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Charlie Todd, children's author and owner of Gillibry Island on which was based the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust, announced that he was going to sell the island. He was a man prone to passing enthusiasms and it seemed that his keenness for birding and ringing was definitely waning. He was talking - and seemingly expecting that the committee of the Trust would share his new passion - about restoring a boat and this was why he needed the money. Within a matter of hours he was dead in one of the bird hides and because the island had been cut off by the tide it could only be a member of the committee who was responsible - and each of them could have had their own reason. George Palmer-Jones had not been present at the time of the murder, but he was a member of the committee and he decided to investigate.