Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature himself in one armchair, a police officer in another, and between them a mystery. The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. But the vicars peace is shattered one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, a secretive and illtempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen with a bullet through his head. The local police inspector is baffled by the complete absence of clues. Suspicion seems to fall on Tregarthans niece, Ruth but surely that young woman lacks the motive to shoot her uncle dead in cold blood? Luckily for Inspector Bigswell, the Reverend Dodd is on hand, and ready to put his keen understanding of the criminal mind to the test. This classic mystery novel of the golden age of British crime fiction is set against the vividly described backdrop of a fishing village on Cornwalls Atlantic coast . It is now republished for the first time since the 1930s.

Binding: Paperback;0 pages; Publisher: British Library Publishing- IWUK; Classification: FFC; Weight: 384 g; Dimensions: 326 x 255 x 52

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