Ambition Brings Its Own Reward

Initiating a career is a critical time for any ambitious young person, and especially so for Bill Green who arrives at (thefictional) Linkirk University full of enthusiasm to start his first job. Determined to prove himself, he diligently invests muchtime and effort in fulfilling the many varied duties assigned to him, suggesting forming a Centre of Excellence inEnvironmental Science of which he hopes to be appointed its first Director. When the Professors appoint WalterThompson instead, Bill is left devastated and infuriated. Already on hostile terms with Walter, one year his senior, hissuffering intensifies on coming to believe that his girlfriend, Beth, has transferred her affections to Walter. With increasing anguish, Bill decides that, to achieve his ambition to be a successful academic, he must eliminateWalter.Calculation, cunning and concealment contribute to Bill's planned 'perfect crime', by making it appear thatWalter's demise has resulted from an unfortunate, fatal accident during fieldwork alone in a remote Italian mountainvalley. But no crime is perfect as Bill soon learns as the case he's sewn up for the police begins to unravel?