Death in the Stocks

A moonlit night in a sleeping village... An English bobby returning from nightpatrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the villagegreen. T... » 

A moonlit night in a sleeping village... An English bobby returning from nightpatrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the villagegreen. The body is that of Andrew Vereker. Not a wellloved man so narrowingdown suspects isnt going to be easy even for the resourceful SuperintendentHannasyde who finds himself on the trail of a killer so cunning that even hisconsummate powers of detection are tested to their limits. «