Third in the bestselling series. Scotland Yard's Richard
Jury solves a bizarre murder in an even stranger town-and
follows a treasure map to yet another chilling crime...
SummaryA spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer
who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny
village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a
severed finger made a ghastly clue in a killing that led
local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a
beautiful lady's manion.
But Richard Jury preferred to take the less traveled route
to a slightly disreputable pub, the Anodyne Necklace.
There, drinks all around loosened enough tongues to link a
London mugging with the Littlebourne murder and a treasure
map that would chart the way to yet another chilling crime.
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