Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"[W]orthy of Agatha Christie at her fiendish plotting best." -- Booklist STARRED review

Two classic cases featuring Detective Inspector Littlejohn.

In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard unearth a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of Hatterworth. Twenty-three years earlier, the body of a young textile worker was found in the same spot, and the prime suspect was never found -- but the second body is now identified as his. Soon it becomes clear that the true murderer is still at large...

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Nathaniel Wall, the local quack doctor, is found hanging in his consulting room in the Norfolk village of Stalden -- but this was not a suicide. Against the backdrop of a close-knit country village, an intriguing story of ambition, blackmail, fraud, false alibis and botanical trickery unravels.

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• Publication Date: October 3, 2017
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• Print Length: 365 Pages
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