A Moonlit Night. a Sleeping Village. and an Unaccountable Murder...An English Bobbie Returning From Night Patrol Finds a Corpse in Evening Dress Locked in the Stocks on the Village Green. He Identifies the Body Immediately. Andrew Vereker Was Not a Well-Loved Man, and Narrowing Down the Suspects is Not Going to Be an Easy Job. the Vereker Family Are Corrupt and Eccentric - and Hardly Cooperative...It's Another Case for the Resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, Who Sets Off on the Trail of a Killer so Cunning That Even His Consummate Powers of Detection Are Tested to Their Limits...