Ruddigore

For centuries the Murgatroyd family the Baronets of Ruddigore have been under a witchs curse commit a crime every day or die in agony Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd the rightful heir has run away to live as innocent peasant Robin Oakapple in the Cornish village of Rederring sticking his brother Despard with the curse But on the very day that Robin is to marry sweet beautiful Rose Maybud it all falls apart Can Sir Ruthven outwit a picture gallery full of his ancestors ghosts to save the day