Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why. New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson, Richard, the only witness, is shocked into silence, then disappears, presumed kidnapped and killed. Switzerland, 1905. Alexander von Reisden, intellectual, immoral, and unstable, is recognized as Richard. Despite Reisden's insistence he's not Richard, he is drawn into the affairs of the Knight family--gaining the hatred of the new heir and the…