Events are getting stranger in the village of Wandles Parva.  The Bishop says people like Rupert Sethleigh don’t disappear – so where is he?  The butcher Binks has found human joints hanging on the hooks where his beef and lamb should be and the Druid stone in Manor Woods has a new splash of blood.  A skull has turned up but keeps going missing, a curious fight has broken out over ‘og pudden’ in the local pub, and when a suitcase is unearthed by police, it is found to contain an affronted-looking stuffed trout.

 

It’s all too easy in the opinion Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley (who is surely the only one who would think so) and she soon has the neighbourhood well and truly questioned.